Daniela Molnar

Daniela Naomi Molnar is a poet, artist, essayist, and pigment maker collaborating with the mediums of language, image, paint, pigment, and place. She is also a wilderness guide, educator, and eternal student. An entry in the Oregon Encyclopedia states, “Molnar pioneered the notion that art can speak to climate change.” Her debut book CHORUS is a finalist for the 2024 Oregon Book Award and was selected by Kazim Ali as the winner of Omnidawn Press’ 1st/2nd Book Award. Her work is the subject of a front-page feature in the Los Angeles Times, an Oregon Art Beat profile, and a feature in Poetry Daily.

Her next books include: Light / Remains (Bored Wolves Press, 2025), a hybrid of poetry, essay, and art; PROTOCOLS (Ayin Press, 2025), a poetic erasure of the antisemitic book The Protocols of the Elders of Zion; and her work will be included in the forthcoming Volume 2 of The Ecopoetry Anthology. Her long poem “Memory of a Larger Mind,” written in collaboration with glaciers, appears alongside photographs by Julian Stettler in The Glacier is a Being (Sturm & Drang, 2023) and her work will be included in The Laurel Review‘s forthcoming folio of contemporary Jewish poetry. Her visual work 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 and helped start the backcountry artist residency Signal Fire in 2008 and helped run it until 2022. A 3G Jew and the daughter of immigrants, she is a diasporic student of the earth. www.danielamolnar.com / Instagram: @daniela_naomi_molnar