Daniela is the author of three full-length collections of poetry: cloudfang : : cakedirt (Horse Less Press, 2012), True Confessions of An Escapee From The Capra Facility For Wayward Girls (Spittoon Press, 2013), and Citizen J (Artifice Books, 2013). With Carol Guess, she is the co-author of How To Feel Confident With Your Special Talents (Black Lawrence Press, 2014) and Human-Ghost Hybrid Project (Black Lawrence Press, 2017). She is currently working on a dystopian novel about Eastern European figure skaters while looking for a home for her new full-length poetry manuscript titled Millennia Gram Gram's Magnificent Miscellanea & Other Answering Machines.
Daniela was born in Wrocław, Poland. She grew up in Chicago and its adjacent suburbs. Daniela received a BA in Poetry Writing from Columbia College Chicago and an MFA in Poetry from University of Alabama. She spent several years teaching with the Alabama Prison Arts and Education Project and the Prison Neighborhood Arts Project. Daniela has also served as Poetry Editor and Assistant Nonfiction Editor of Black Warrior Review, Assistant Poetry Editor of Another Chicago Magazine, and as a staff member of Switchback Books. She composes one-off poems for the Chicago chapter of Poems While You Wait, and she is the curator of the Humboldt Hump Reading Series.
Daniela is a part-time instructor of ESL, freshman composition, literature, and creative writing at several Chicagoland colleges and universities.
Daniela was born in Wrocław, Poland. She grew up in Chicago and its adjacent suburbs. Daniela received a BA in Poetry Writing from Columbia College Chicago and an MFA in Poetry from University of Alabama. She spent several years teaching with the Alabama Prison Arts and Education Project and the Prison Neighborhood Arts Project. Daniela has also served as Poetry Editor and Assistant Nonfiction Editor of Black Warrior Review, Assistant Poetry Editor of Another Chicago Magazine, and as a staff member of Switchback Books. She composes one-off poems for the Chicago chapter of Poems While You Wait, and she is the curator of the Humboldt Hump Reading Series.
Daniela is a part-time instructor of ESL, freshman composition, literature, and creative writing at several Chicagoland colleges and universities.
