Delaney R. Olmo
“Words and language follow their own rhythms and landscapes, just as the memories we inherit from our ancestors and families. Seasons shift, animals move through their cycles, and images rise again from the land. Everything in this life is connected, including the dreams and memories held by those who came before us.”
— from the Author’s Note for “The Day After the Rez Fire,” The Dodge.
Bio:
Delaney R. Olmo is an Indigenous-Mixed writer, poet, and essayist. She is the author of a forthcoming poetry collection, with work that moves through memory, ancestry, landscape, ceremony, grief, and the spiritual presence of the natural world. She is an enrolled member of the Kashia Band of Pomo Indians.
Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Feminist Formations from Johns Hopkins University Press, The Dodge, Decolonial Passage, Green Linden Press, News from Native California, Solstice Literary Magazine, Yellow Medicine Review, Watershed Review, Thimble Lit, Unleash Lit, and elsewhere. Her poetry has been recognized as a finalist for the James Welch Prize, and a semifinalist for the MacGuffin Poet Hunt Contest.
She is a recipient of the 2022 Poets & Writers Open Door Grant and a former winner of the Mireyda Barraza Martinez Social Justice Writing Prize. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from California State University, Fresno