Photo by Bryan Meltz for the New York Times
Desireé Dallagiacomo is a writer, educator, and space creator.
She has been writing poetry & nonfiction alone and with company since 2010.
She is the author of one full-length collection of poetry, SINK (Button Poetry), and 2 chapbooks: Dimly Lit (Next Left Press) & The Year of The Institution (Next Left Press).
She is the founder and lead teaching artist of The Heart of It Writing Retreat, the Undercurrent Writing Workshop, among others.
She is of Chahta and European descent, and is an enrolled citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma.
She is a Helen Zell Fellow in the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan, and she is currently writing a memoir and her second full-length collection of poetry.