Danielle Cowan

Danielle Cowan is a blind, queer and Blackarican native South Bronx girl dabbling in community health, poetry and performance. She has helped combat Covid disparities as part of the CDC‘s Covid disparities grant and continues to advocate for disabled women of color around NYC. Her artistic work is fascinated with what it means for bodies and places to hold multiple, sometimes culturally conflicting identities and playing with ways to write and perform within shared histories and trauma. She has had poems published in Causeway Lit’s revolution issue, Mobius: The Journal of Social Change, New Verse News and elsewhere. She has read in The Rally Reading Series, and received fellowships from More Art and Office Hours Poetry Workshop. she has also received funding from Ellen Bass’s craft workshop, and Cave Canem.