Desireé Bewley Dallagiacomo is a citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. She is a poet and memoirist raised in the foothills of Northern California and the swamplands of Southeast Louisiana. She is the recipient of the 2025 James Welch Prize for Indigenous Poetry, and she has received fellowships from Vermont Studio Center, The Harpo Foundation, Tin House Writing Workshop, and the Helen Zell Writers’ Program, among others. Desireé received her BA in Feminist Studies and a certificate from the Visualizing Abolition Studies program from the University of California, Santa Cruz and she is a poetry candidate in the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan. She is writing about indigeneity, class, surveillance, and the carceral state. She is the founder of The Heart of It Writing Retreat & Residencies, and with a team of writers and organizers, she is procuring seed funding to steward land and creative space to house the retreat alongside other co-op creative projects. Her first full-length collection of poetry, Sink, was published by Button Poetry.
