Dani Burlison (she/her) is the creator/editor/author of “All of Me: Stories of Love, Anger and the Female Body” (PM Press, 2019), a short story collection, “Some Places Worth Leaving,” (Tolsun Books, 2020), “Dendrophilia and Other Social Taboos: True Stories,” a collection of essays which first appeared in her McSweeney's Internet Tendency column of the same name, and the “Lady Parts” zine series (available at Pioneers Press). She is the co-editor, with Margaret Elysia Garcia, of “Red Flag Warning,” an anthology about fires & mutual aid in Northern California.
Dani has been a staff writer at a Bay Area alt-weekly, a book reviewer for Los Angeles Review and a regular contributor at Yes! Magazine, Chicago Tribune, KQED, The Rumpus, Made Local Magazine and Emerald Report. Her journalism, fiction and personal essays can also be found at Ms. Magazine, WIRED, Vice, Utne, Earth Island Journal, Ploughshares, Portland Review, Hip Mama Magazine, Rad Dad, Spirituality & Health Magazine, North Bay Bohemian, The Press Democrat, Shareable, Common Good, Sustainable America, Ravishly, Tahoma Literary Review, Vestal Review, Bike Monkey Magazine, Prick of the Spindle, sparkle + blink and more.
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