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Dara Yen Elerath is a mixed-race, Chinese-American writer, born in California and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She is the author of Dark Braid (2020, BkMk Press), which won the John Ciardi Prize for Poetry and was longlisted for the Julie Suk Award.
Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The Atlantic, Poetry, the American Poetry Review, AGNI, the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day series, High Country News, and elsewhere.
Dara earned her MFA in Creative Writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts and was the recipient of a prize fellowship from the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, where she was a poet-in-residence in fall of 2024.
If you would like to get in touch, email her at daraelerath@gmail.com.
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