About

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: Mutual Aid and Survival in California’s Fire Country,” an anthology set to be published by AK Press in 2025. Dani is also a founding member of CAW, a worker-run online journal of art, culture and political writing.

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.

Her writing also appears in the following anthologies: Trust Kids! Stories on Youth Autonomy and Confronting Adult Supremacy (2022), Pandemic Solidarity: Mutual Aid During the Covid-19 Crisis (2020), Hexing the Patriarchy: 26 Potions, Spells, and Magical Elixirs to Embolden the Resistance  (2019), By One’s Own Hand: Writing About Suicide (forthcoming), Flash Nonfiction Funny (2018), Rad Families: A Celebration (2016), The Silent History (Digital Field Report, 2014), Cry of the Nightbird: Writers Against Domestic Violence (2014), and The People's Apocalypse (2013).

Dani has a Master's Degree from the school of Culture, Ecology & Sustainable Community at New College of California and is an alumna of the Squaw Valley Writer's Workshop, the Mendocino Coast Writers Conference, LitCamp and the Woodland Keep Residency. She will be a writer in residence at The Future’s ‘Witch Residency’ in Minneapolis in 2021 and at Cove Park in Scotland in 2022. She has co-hosted the Get Lit! Reading Series with Kara Vernor since 2013, and co-founded the Petals & Bones Writing Workshops with Leilani Clark in 2010.

Dani teaches memoir-writing classes at a local community college (and in various other programs) and is a trauma-informed yoga instructor (RYT 200) developing workshop curriculum to bring yoga and self-care practices to activists. She is also an Ancestral Lineage Healing Practitioner, trained through Ancestral Medicine, and a student of herbal medicine at Heartwood in Bedfordshire, UK. A former housing case manager with veterans, Dani grew up in a large working poor family in a rural farming community in the Northern Sacramento Valley and is a single parent of two young adults. She lives on unceded Southern Pomo and Wappo land aka Sonoma County, California.