Daniela Seel, born 1974 in Frankfurt/M., lives as a poet and editor of kookbooks in Berlin.
She also works as a freelance editor, teaches language arts in Vienna, translates Robert Macfarlane (Die verlorenen Wörter, Matthes & Seitz Berlin 2018) and Lisa Robertson, among others, and is active at the non-profit KOOK e.V., for which she most recently curated the literature performance festival KOOK.MONO in 2018. Numerous international performances and collaborations, including with illustrator Andreas Töpfer, dancer David Bloom, and musicians Roland Dahinden and Hildegard Keeb.
Daniela Seel published the poetry collections ich kann diese stelle nicht wiederfinden (kookbooks 2011), was weißt du schon von prärie (kookbooks 2015) and Auszug aus Eden (Peter Engstler Verlag 2019) as well as the radio feature was weißt du schon von prärie (SWR/DLF 2015) together with Frank Kaspar. For her work she received, among others, the Friedrich-Hölderlin-Förderpreis, the Lotto Brandenburg Kunstpreis für Literatur, and the Mondseer Lyrikpreis. In 2016, together with Anja Bayer, she published the anthology All this, Majesty, is Yours. Lyrik im Anthropozän (kookbooks and Deutsches Museum Munich).