Danielle Cadena Deulen

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Danielle Cadena Deulen
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BornJanuary 7, 1979
Portland, Oregon, US
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  • Poet
  • essayist
  • academic
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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 .

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Biography

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

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 (under the judging of Luis Alberto Urrea) won the 2010 the AWP Prize in Creative Nonfiction. [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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References

  1. 1 2 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.
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