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. 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 in 2025. Forthcoming books include Memory of a Larger Mind, a book written with glaciers (Omnidawn, 2026), Light / Remains, a book of visual art, poems, and essays, and The World is Full, a book considering love as a political, relational, and internal force.

 

Her work has been published and shown widely, is in public and private collections internationally, has been recognized by numerous grants, fellowships, and residencies, and is featured in the Los Angeles Times, PBS Oregon Art Beat, Oregon Encyclopedia, The Creative Independent, and Poetry Daily.

 

Molnar’s training in both science and art informs her practice. She previously worked as an Art Director with Scientific American and later founded and directed the Art + Ecology program at the Pacific Northwest College of Art.

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Her wrtiting is anthologized in Attached to the Living World: A New Ecopoetry Anthology and in Breaking the Glass: A Contemporary Jewish Poetry Anthology. Her book-length poem “Memory of a Larger Mind” accompanies photographs by Julian Stettler in The Glacier is a Being (Sturm & Drang, 2023). 

 

Her work leads her to far-flung places but she loves orbiting back to her studio where the forest meets the city in Portland, Oregon.​