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

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'' ''(U. of Arkansas Press, 2011)'', 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

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The Wreck of the Deutschland ''The Wreck of the Deutschland'' is a 35-stanza ode by Gerard Manley Hopkins with Christian poetry, Christian themes, composed in 1875 and 1876, though not published until 1918. The poem depicts the shipwreck of the SS Deutschland (1866), SS ''D ...

." ''The Riots'' (U. of Georgia Press, 2011) is a book of essays which (under the judging of

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) won the 2010 the AWP Prize in Creative Nonfiction. It also won the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award for Creative Nonfiction.

Honors and awards

* 2018 Oregon Literary Fellowship, Oregon Literary Arts

References

External links

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