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Danielle Cadena Deulen

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Danielle Cadena Deulen
BornJanuary 7, 1979
Portland, Oregon, US
Occupation
  • Poet
  • essayist
  • academic
Alma mater
Website
danielledeulen.net

Danielle Cadena Deulen (born 1979) is an American poet, essayist, and academic. She is also the host of the Literary radio program and podcast Lit from the Basement.

Biography

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Danielle Cadena Deulen was born and raised in Portland, Oregon to Daniel Deulen and Cecilia Cadena. She is half-Latinx on her mother's side. Much of her early life is explored in her personal essay collection, The Riots.[1]

Selected works

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Deulen's first collection of poems, Lovely Asunder (U. of Arkansas Press, 2011),[2][3] won the 2010 Miller Williams Arkansas Poetry Prize of the University of Arkansas Press, which subsequently published the book,[4] and the 2012 Utah Book Award.[5] The title Lovely Asunder was taken from Gerard Manley Hopkins' "The Wreck of the Deutschland."

The Riots (U. of Georgia Press, 2011)[1] is a book of essays which won the 2010 the AWP Prize in Creative Nonfiction, judged by Luis Alberto Urrea.[6] It also won the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award for Creative Nonfiction.[7]

Her 2023 collection Desire Museum was shortlisted for the 2024 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Poetry.[8]

Honors and awards

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  • 2018 Oregon Literary Fellowship,[9] Oregon Literary Arts

References

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  1. ^ a b Deulen, Danielle Cadena (2011). The Riots. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 9780820338835. JSTOR j.ctt46n4zr.
  2. ^ Deulen, Danielle Cadena (2011-02-01). Lovely Asunder. University of Arkansas Press. doi:10.2307/j.ctt1ffjk9m. ISBN 9781610754781.
  3. ^ Erickson, Caitlin (October 2, 2012), "Danielle Cadena Deulen's Lovely Asunder", 15 Bytes, Artists of Utah
  4. ^ "University of Arkansas Press Announces Winner of $5,000 Miller Williams Arkansas Poetry Prize", University of Arkansas News, July 7, 2010, retrieved January 27, 2020
  5. ^ "Utah Book Award: And the Winners Are . .", 15 Bytes, Artists of Utah, October 7, 2012, retrieved January 27, 2020
  6. ^ Association of Writers and Writing Programs (December 2011), "AWP Award Series 2010 Winners", Poetry, 199 (3): back matter, JSTOR 23068167
  7. ^ The Riots Wins GLCA First-Book Award, Association of Writers and Writing Programs, April 3, 2012, retrieved January 27, 2020
  8. ^ "Announcing the Finalists for the 36th Annual Lambda Literary Awards". them. 2024-03-27. Retrieved 2024-04-05.
  9. ^ "2018 Oregon Literary Fellowship Recipient Danielle Deulen". Literary Arts. 2018-03-29. Retrieved 2019-05-30.
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