Desireé Dallagiacomo

Desireé Bewley Dallagiacomo (she/her) is a writer, educator, and space creator.

She is the author of SINK (Button Poetry) and two out-of-print chapbooks. She is the recipient of the 2025 James Welch Prize for Indigenous Poetry, a Pushcart Prize nominee, and ranked in the top three at every major poetry slam in the United States. She has received fellowships from Vermont Studio Center, The Harpo Foundation, Tin House Writing Workshop, and the Helen Zell Writers’ Program, among others. 

Desireé received her BA in Feminist Studies and a certificate from the Visualizing Abolition Studies program from the University of California, Santa Cruz and is a poetry candidate in the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan.

She is the founder of The Heart of It Writing Retreat & Residencies, and with a team of writers and organizers, she is procuring seed funding to steward land and creative space to house the retreat alongside other co-op creative projects. You can learn more and donate to the seed funding here.

She is an enrolled citizen of The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, and she was raised in the foothills of Northern California and the swamplands of Southeast Louisiana. Currently, Desireé is writing about indigeneity, class, surveillance, and the carceral state. Read her current work and subscribe to her free newsletter here.

You can join her weekly writing workshop here.