Dara Goodale

Poet

Chavannes-près-Renens, VD
Switzerland
Vaud CH
Website: 
daragoodale.com

Author's Bio

Dara Goodale (they/she) is a Romanian-American lesbian, poet, and university student living in Lausanne, Switzerland. Their work has appeared in the American Poetry Journal, Thimble Literary Magazine, Cleaver Magazine, and more. Dara is a Pushcart nominee and was a finalist for the Gasher Press 2025 Bennett Nieberg Transpoetic Broadside Prize. You can find them on Instagram @daragoodale and online at daragoodale.com

Publications & Prizes

Prizes won: 

Recipient of one of the Emerging Voices Scholarships for the 2025 Geneva Writers Conference

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Mary Oliver, Richard Siken, Kaveh Akbar
What I'm reading now: 
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van der Kolk

More Information

Identifies as: 
American, LGBTQ, Romanian
Fluent in: 
English, French
Born in: 
Atlanta, GA
Georgia
Raised in: 
Fairfax, VA
Virginia
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Last update: Nov 13, 2025