Ja'net Danielo is the author of This Body I Have Tried to Write, winner of the MAYDAY 2022 Poetry Micro Chapbook Editors' Choice Award, and The Song of Our Disappearing (2021), a winner of the Paper Nautilus Debut Series Chapbook Contest. She has been awarded grants from the de Groot Foundation and the Arts Council for Long Beach and has been a winner of the River Heron Editors' Prize and the Telluride Institute's Fischer Prize, an honorable mention in the Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest, and a finalist for the James Hearst Poetry Prize and the Lascaux Prize in Poetry. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Journal, North American Review, swamp pink, and Diode, among other places. Originally from Queens, NY, Ja'net lives in Long Beach, CA, where she facilitates Word Women: Poetry Heals, a free virtual poetry workshop series for cancer patients and survivors.