Danielle Cadena Deulen


Danielle Cadena Deulen is an American poet, essayist, and academic. She is also the host of the Literary radio program and podcast Lit from the Basement.
WWW danielledeulen.net

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.''

Selected works

Deulen's first collection of poems, Lovely Asunder '''', won the 2010 Miller Williams Arkansas Poetry Prize of the University of Arkansas Press, which subsequently published the book, and the 2012 Utah Book Award. The title Lovely Asunder was taken from Gerard Manley Hopkins' "The Wreck of the Deutschland."
The Riots is a book of essays which won the 2010 the AWP Prize in Creative Nonfiction, judged by Luis Alberto Urrea. It also won the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award for Creative Nonfiction.
Her 2023 collection Desire Museum was shortlisted for the 2024 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Poetry.

Honors and awards