Daniela Naomi Molnar is a poet, artist, and writer who works with color, water, language, and place. She creates paintings using pigments made from plants, bones, stones, rainwater, and glacial melt. Her writing develops alongside this work, with each practice influencing the other to form new ecologies. Her work is the subject of a front-page feature in the Los Angeles Times, a PBS Oregon Art Beat profile, an entry in the Oregon Encyclopedia, and a feature in Poetry Daily. Her debut book, CHORUS, won the 2024 Oregon Book Award for Poetry and was selected by Kazim Ali as the winner of Omnidawn Press ‘1st/2nd Book Award. Forthcoming titles include PROTOCOLS: An Erasure (Ayin Press, 2025), Memory of a Larger Mind (Omnidawn, 2026), and Light / Remains (Bored
Wolves Press, 2028). Her work is anthologized in Attached to the Living World: A New Ecopoetry Anthology and Breaking the Glass: A Contemporary Jewish Poetry Anthology. A book-length poem written with glaciers accompanies Julian Stettler’s photographs of glaciers in The Glacier is a Being (Sturm & Drang, 2024). Her artwork has been shown nationally, is in public and private collections internationally, and has been recognized by numerous grants, fellowships, and residencies. She founded the Art + Ecology program at the Pacific Northwest College of Art in 2016 and helped start and run the backcountry artist residency Signal Fire from 2008-2023. She can be found in Portland, Oregon, and exploring global public wildlands. Learn more at danielamolnar.com or on Instagram @daniela naomi molnar.
