Danielle is mostly a home-baked and late-blooming poet.
She’s been happily nominated for both 2025 Best of the Net and Pushcart, and for 2026 Best of the Net. Her poems can be found scattered in various literary journals and anthologies, both in print and online.
She’s the author of four chapbooks: Cold rain in Pittsburgh (Bottlecap Press 2024), The Oracle’s Voicemail (Alien Buddha Press 2024), The TV Guide (Alien Buddha Press 2024), and irl (forthcoming from Stanchion Books in 2026), as well as micro-chapbooks: insecure lovesong (Maverick Duck Press 2024) and rowhouse song (Ghost City Press 2025), both of which are available as free downloads.
She’s also founder and editor of the engine(idling, an online litmag.
I want to sluice
through satin
ribbons of sunlightI want to race beneath
the jointed stilts, the stares
of sunflowers
I want to eat black soil
and yellow starbursts
like cake
— girl in a garden
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