About Nolan Dannels
Nolan Dannels is a Persian American writer, musician, and academic with a Master’s in English Language and Literature from the University of Edinburgh. He studies modern and contemporary English/Anglophone poetry as a Literature PhD candidate at UC San Diego, where he served as the Editor in Chief of Alchemy. His writing has appeared in Kissing Dynamite, Trouvaille Review, Wine Cellar Press, Wishbone Words, Snakeskin Poetry Webzine, The New Verse News, and Qafiyah Review, which nominated him for the 2025 Best of the Net anthology. His music appears in Hare’s Paw Literary Journal. His poetry chapbook, Horizontal Ensemble, was published by Bottlecap Press.
Author Statement:
- As a poet and writer, I believe in the power of vivid language and meaningful storytelling, especially when literature is able to elaborate on core experiences of the human condition through profound sentimentality and thought-provoking wordplay.
- As a musician, I believe in the need for music to be uniquely one’s own and for its creation to strive towards satisfying the person creating it; however this is done is up to the individual in question.
- As an academic, I believe in the clarity of one’s writing for the sake of the reader’s understanding, such that the scholarly discourse surrounding different topics in academia can be followed and continued in new and compelling directions.