Danielle Cadena Deulen is the author of four books and a chapbook. Her most recent poetry collection, Desire Museum (BOA Editions) won a 2024 Lambda Literary Award. Her previous publications include Our Emotions Get Carried Away Beyond Us, which won the Barrow Street Book Contest, American Libretto, which won the Sow’s Ear Chapbook Contest; The Riots, which won the AWP Prize in Creative Nonfiction and the GLCA New Writers Award; and Lovely Asunder, which won the Miller Williams Arkansas Poetry Prize and the Utah Book Award. She served as a Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. She has been the recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, an Oregon Literary Fellowship, and a Pushcart Prize. Her work has appeared in many journals including The Washington Post, Ploughshares, Poem-a-Day (poets.org), and the New England Review. Originally from the Northwest, she now makes her home in Atlanta where she is an associate professor for the graduate creative writing program at Georgia State University. Her website is danielledeulen.net