Dani Putney

Dani Putney is a queer, non-binary, mixed-race Filipinx, and neurodivergent poet and essayist originally from Sacramento, Calif. They are the author of Mix-Mix (Baobab Press, 2025) and Salamat sa Intersectionality (Okay Donkey Press, 2021), finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Transgender Poetry. They are also the author of the poetry chapbook Dela Torre (Sundress Publications, 2022) and the creative nonfiction chapbook Swallow Whole (Bullshit Press, 2024), and they have received support for their work from the Nevada Arts Council, Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference, and Association of Writers & Writing Programs, among other organizations. Their poetry appears in outlets such as Bennington Review, Cream City Review, Foglifter, Grist, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and Puerto del Sol, among others, while their creative nonfiction can be found in journals such as Crab Creek Review, Glassworks Magazine, Quarterly West, and So to Speak, among others. They received their doctoral degree in English from Oklahoma State University and Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Mississippi University for Women. They live in Reno, Nevada.