Daniela Naomi Molnar

Bio

Daniela Naomi Molnar is a poet and artist who creates with color, water, language, and place. Her art is created with pigments she has made from plants, bones, stones, rainwater and glacial melt. Poems and essays are created alongside the visual art; the practices overlap and influence each other, creating new ecologies. Her debut book CHORUS won the 2024 Oregon Book Award for Poetry, followed by PROTOCOLS: An Erasure (Ayin Press, 2025). Forthcoming books include Memory of a Larger Mind, a book written in collaboration with glaciers (Omnidawn, 2026), and Light / Remains, a book of visual art, poems, and essays, (Bored Wolves, 2028). She founded the Art + Ecology program at the Pacific Northwest College of Art and helped found and run the backcountry artist residency Signal Fire from 2008 - 2022.