Darla Himeles (they/she) is a Philadelphia-based poet, translator, and essayist who was raised in Dallas and Los Angeles. A Pushcart-Prize and Best-of-the-Net nominee, Darla can be read in recent and forthcoming issues of Lesbians are Miracles, American Poetry Review, The Massachusetts Review, The Night Heron Barks, New Ohio Review, and Beloit Poetry Journal. Darla holds an AB in English from Bryn Mawr College, an MFA in poetry and poetry in translation from Drew University, and a PhD in American literature from Temple University. A 2018 K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award recipient, Darla is an assistant teaching professor in the Department of English and Creative Writing at Widener University. They are the author of the chapbook Flesh Enough (Get Fresh Books, 2017) and the full-length poetry collection Cleave (Get Fresh Books, 2021).
Read Michele Zipkin’s Philadelphia Gay News feature about Darla here.
Read The Wild Word “Center Stage” feature (3 poems and a Q&A) here.