Daniela Naomi Molnar

Daniela Naomi Molnar is a poet and artist who creates with color, water, language, and place. Her art centers on memory — planetary, cultural, familial, and personal. She works with pigments she makes from plants, bones, stones, and specific waters such as rainwater and glacial melt. Poems are created alongside the visual art; the practices overlap and influence each other. Her debut book, CHORUS, won the 2024 Oregon Book Award for Poetry. PROTOCOLS: An Erasure was published by Ayin Press in June 2025 and is shortlisted for the National Jewish Book Award. Memory of a Larger Mind will be published in October 2026 by Omnidawn Press.