Dani Putney is a queer, non-binary, mixed-race Filipinx, and neurodivergent writer originally from Sacramento, California. They are the author of Half-Off Boys (Baobab Press, forthcoming 2027), 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 Nevada Humanities, the Nevada Arts Council, the Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference, and the 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 PhD in English from Oklahoma State University and MFA in Creative Writing from Mississippi University for Women and live in Reno, Nevada.
He wraps his arms around my waist in front of the boiling pot. Sturdy, the hands of an Irish mother, our obstetrical instruments shaving down their own bacteria. I think about legacies, the parents in us, the same escapes we fail until, somehow, it all locks in place. What lies our bodies tell. He taught me to butcher, the biggest… Read more →