Mabuhay!

Dani Putney is a queer, non-binary, mixed-race Filipinx, & neurodivergent writer originally from Sacramento, California. Their debut full-length collection, Salamat sa Intersectionality (Okay Donkey Press, 2021), was a finalist for the 2022 Lambda Literary Award in Transgender Poetry. Mix-Mix, their second full-length poetry collection, is forthcoming from Baobab Press. They’re also the author of the poetry chapbook Dela Torre (Sundress Publications, 2022) & the creative nonfiction chapbook Swallow Whole (Bullshit Press, 2024). Their poetry appears in outlets such as Bennington Review, Cream City Review, Grist, Hayden’s Ferry Review, & Puerto del Sol, among others, while their personal essays can be found in journals such as Crab Creek Review, Glassworks Magazine, & Quarterly West, among others. They received their PhD in English from Oklahoma State University and their MFA in Creative Writing from Mississippi University for Women. They live in Reno, Nevada.