About Onna Solomon

Onna Solomon is a Michigan-based writer, social worker, library enthusiast, and dance party mastermind. Her poetry chapbook Disorder was published in a hand-bound, limited edition run by Press 34. She has contributed writing to a range of publications such as 32 Poems, Beloit Poetry Journal, Cimarron Review, Dunes Review, Denver Quarterly, Hobart, The Hopkins Review, The Ann Arbor Observer, and The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry, among others. Her poem “Autism Suite” was awarded Beloit Poetry Journal’s Chad Walsh Poetry Prize. Her first full-length poetry manuscript The Mother of Sons has been a finalist for multiple awards, including Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize and Autumn House Press Poetry Prize. She studied English literature and creative writing as an undergraduate at the University of Michigan and completed her Master’s in Creative Writing at Boston University. In her spare time, she thinks up ways to gather people together through Stubborn Joy Society, a (somewhat imaginary) collective committed to joy as an act of survival. She lives in Ann Arbor, MI.