Ja'net Danielo

Poet

Long Beach, CA
California US

Author's Bio

Ja'net Danielo is the author of This Body I Have Tried to Write, winner of the MAYDAY 2022 Poetry Micro Chapbook Editors' Choice Award, and The Song of Our Disappearing (2021), a winner of the Paper Nautilus Debut Series Chapbook Contest. She is a recipient of a Courage to Write Grant from the de Groot Foundation, a Professional Artist Fellowship from the Arts Council for Long Beach, the Telluride Institute's Fischer Prize, and an honorable mention in the Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in swamp pink, Diode, The Maine Review, Frontier Poetry, and In the Tempered Dark: Contemporary Poets Transcending Elegy (Black Lawrence Press, 2024), among other places. Originally from Queens, NY, Ja'net lives in Long Beach, CA, where she facilitates Word Women: Poetry Heals, a free virtual poetry workshop series for cancer patients and survivors.

Publications & Prizes

Chapbooks:
This Body I Have Tried to Write (Mayday, 2022)
,
The Song of Our Disappearing (Paper Nautilus, 2021)
Prizes won: 
  • Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest Honorable Mention for "Migration"
  • de Groot Foundation's Courage to Write grant
  • Lascaux Prize in Poetry Finalist for "Metastasis"
  • MAYDAY 2022 Micro Poetry Chapbook Contest Editors' Choice Award for This Body I Have Tried to Write
  • 2021-2022 Professional Artist Fellowship from the Arts Council for Long Beach
  • Telluride Institute's Fischer Prize for "We Thank the Veteran for His Service"
  • Paper Nautilus Debut Series Chapbook Contest for The Song of Our Disappearing

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Diane Seuss, Ross Gay, Victoria Chang, Hanif Abdurraqib, Cecilia Woloch, Tiana Clark, Dorianne Laux, John Murillo, Kendra DeColo, Maggie Smith
What I'm reading now: 
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More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
Italian American
Prefers to work with: 
Adults
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Queens Village, NY
New York
Raised in: 
Queens Village, NY
New York
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Last update: Jun 12, 2024