Daniela Nao­mi Mol­nar is a poet, artist, and writer who cre­ates with col­or, water, lan­guage, and place. Her debut book, CHO­RUS, won the 2024 Staford/​Hall Ore­gon Book Award for Poet­ry and was select­ed by Kaz­im Ali as the win­ner of Omnidawn Press’s 1st/​2nd Book Award. Her book-length poem ​“Mem­o­ry of a Larg­er Mind” accom­pa­nies pho­tographs by Julian Stet­tler in The Glac­i­er Is a Being (Sturm & Drang, 2023). Her work is anthol­o­gized in the forth­com­ing sec­ond vol­ume of The Ecopo­et­ry Anthol­o­gy and in Break­ing the Glass: A Con­tem­po­rary Jew­ish Poet­ry Anthol­o­gy from the Lau­rel Review. Forth­com­ing books include: Mem­o­ry of a Larg­er Mind (Omnidawn, 2028) and Light / Remains (Bored Wolves, 2026). Mol­nar lives in Port­land, Ore­gon and in the high deserts of the North Amer­i­can West. Insta­gram: @daniela_naomi_molnar