Noelle de la Paz

Noelle de la Paz is a writer, poet, and artist. Working from New York City and San Francisco, she draws from stories that are inherited, embodied, speculative—almost always some combination of the three. Through iterative explorations of form, narrative, archival research, and translation, she assembles words and images, plants and food, clay and shape, in an attempt to visibilize and interrogate girlness, brownness, languaging, and movements through borders, temporal and spatial. Noelle’s work appears in The Kenyon Review, The Recluse, Southwest Review, Newtown Literary, and elsewhere, and as part of the exhibitions Otherwise Obscured: Erasure in Body and Text (Franklin Street Works, 2019) and Boulevard of Ghosts (Local Project Art Space, 2021). She was a 2021-22 Emerge–Surface–Be Fellow at The Poetry Project, and has also received support from Brooklyn Poets, VONA, KulArts, Dia Art Foundation’s Poetry & series, and the Queens Council for the Arts.