NOELLE
DE LA PAZ

IS A

but first she is a listener and a learner, a loud laugher, a daughter and sister and friend, a bag carrier, a kitchen bruha, a reader, a homebody, a visitor, an aspiring tough old bird, a kindred spirit and familiar, a thinker, a tinkerer, and (she hopes) a surprise.

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HER PRACTICE
FOCUSES

on stories that are inherited, embodied, speculative—almost always some combination of the three. Through iterative explorations of form, narrative, archival research, handmaking, and translation, she attempts to visibilize and interrogate the stakes of girlness, brownness, languaging, care, empire, and movements through borders, temporal and spatial.

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HER WORK
IS SHARED

in The Seventh Wave, Kenyon Review, Southwest Review, and elsewhere. She was a 2021-22 Emerge-Surface-Be Fellow at The Poetry Project, and is currently working on her first manuscript.

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HER STUDY
IS ANCHORED

by a longstanding, ongoing, and regular engagement in learning spaces, with an emphasis on the extra-institutional, the DIY, the mutual, the in-between, the ordinary, the place-based, and the collective.



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