Daniela Naomi Molnar is a poet and artist who creates with color, water, language, and place. Her art centers on memory—planetary, cultural, familial, and personal. She works with pigments she makes from plants, bones, stones, and specific waters such as rainwater and glacial melt; her poems and essays are created alongside the visual art; the practices overlap and influence each other. Her debut book CHORUS won the 2024 Oregon Book Award for Poetry, followed by PROTOCOLS: An Erasure, which was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. She lives and works in Portland, Oregon, where the forest meets the city.