Danielle Vogel

Danielle Vogel (she/her) is a poet and interdisciplinary artist working at the intersections of queer and feminist ecologies, somatics, and ceremony. She is the author of the hybrid poetry collections Between Grammars (Noemi Press, 2015); The Way a Line Hallucinates Its Own Linearity (Red Hen Press, 2020); Edges & Fray (Wesleyan University Press, 2020), a finalist for the 2021 Connecticut Book Award; and A Library of Light (Wesleyan University Press, 2024). Vogel’s installations and site responsive works have been displayed at the RISD Museum and other art venues. Adaptations of her work have been performed at venues including Carnegie Hall in New York and the Tjarnarbíó Theater in Reykjavík, Iceland.

Vogel is committed to an embodied, ceremonial approach to poetics and relies heavily on field research, cross-disciplinary studies, and archives of all kinds. Her installations—interdisciplinary and site-responsive works, or “ceremonies for language”—are often extensions of her manuscripts and tend to the living archives of memory shared between bodies, languages, and landscapes.

Vogel was born in Queens, New York, and raised on the South Shore of Long Island. She earned a PhD in literature and creative writing from the University of Denver and an MFA in creative writing and poetics from Naropa University. An associate professor at Wesleyan University, she has also taught across genres and the arts at Brown University, the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University, and the University of Washington at Bothell. She lives in the Connecticut River Valley with her partner, the writer and artist Renee Gladman, where she runs a private practice as an herbalist and flower essence practitioner.