Dana Teen Lomax

Dana Teen Lomax is an experimental filmmaker, poet, and activist. Her cross-genre films have screened internationally, most recently at the Fotogenia (CDMX) and Ojai film festivals. Named among the Guerrilla Girls’ favorite poets, Lomax has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, was honored with an Arion Press broadside of her poem “Lullaby,” and received awards from the Academy of American Poets, California Arts Council, San Francisco Foundation, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and others. A chapter regarding Lomax’s Disclosure is forthcoming in Self-Archives in Contemporary Life Writing edited by Wojciech Drag (University of Wroclaw, Poland). About her editorial project, THE BEAUTIFUL (Gualala Arts, 2022), Juan Felipe Herrera writes, “Each author here, each photographer here, each moment here can change our lives.” Lomax’s Kindergarde: Avant-garde Poems, Plays, Stories, and Songs for Children (Black Radish Books, 2013) was awarded a Creative Work Fund Grant and the 2014 Johns Hopkins University Press Prize for Excellence in North American Poetry. With Jennifer Firestone, she edited Letters to Poets (Saturnalia, 2008), which Cornel West calls a “courageous and visionary book.” Lomax collaborates with artists internationally, has taught writing in libraries, schools, prisons, and universities, served as the Human Rights and Equity Chair for her teachers’ union as well as the Interim Director at Small Press Traffic. Lomax lives near Los Angeles.