Naomi Azriel is a Bay Area based poet, queer activist and Jungian analyst.

In both her clinical and poetic work, she reaches for complex interior spaces in which the fury of disillusionment and the sweetness of enchantment can coincide.

Having had her heart shattered by Israel/Palestine, from which she hails, she has been aiming to beam herself on a ray of dark matter into a wormhole between languages, between worlds, between the imaginary and the real.

Her work was nominated for the Pushcart Prize, selected as finalist by Fjords Review, Host Publications, Inverted Syntax, and Fordham University’s Poetic Justice Prize, longlisted for Frontier Poetry's Breakthrough Prize and shortlisted for the Central Avenue Poetry Prize. She is currently a member of the Brooklyn Poets Mentorship Program 2025 cohort.