Denise Newman

Denise Newman is a San Francisco-based poet, translator, and video maker whose work probes the gaps between perception, language, and reality. She has published several poetry collections, including The Redesignation of Paradise (2024) and Reality Is Occurring in the Cracks in Reality (2025). She has translated Danish writers Inger Christensen, Naja Marie Aidt, and Signe Gjessing. She was a Writing Artist in Residence at Headlands Center for the Arts in 2026, where she worked on a book-length poem about her late daughter.