Danielle Cadena Deulen (born 1979) is an American poet, essayist, and academic. She is assistant professor of English at Georgia State University.
Danielle Cadena Deulen was born and raised in Portland, Oregon to Daniel Deulen and Cecilia Cadena. She is three quarters caucasian and one quarter-Latinx. Much of her early life is explored in her personal essay collection, The Riots.
Deulen's first collection of poems, Lovely Asunder (U. of Arkansas Press, 2011), won the 2010 Miller Williams Arkansas Poetry Prize of the University of Arkansas Press, which subsequently published the book, and the 2012 Utah Book Award. The title Lovely Asunder was taken from Gerard Manley Hopkins' "The Wreck of the Deutschland."
The Riots (U. of Georgia Press, 2011) is a book of essays which won the 2010 the AWP Prize in Creative Nonfiction, judged by Luis Alberto Urrea. It also won the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award for Creative Nonfiction.
Her 2023 collection Desire Museum won the 2024 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Poetry.