Dani Burlison is the editor and creator of the anthology “All of Me: Stories of Love, Anger and the Female Body,” (PM Press, 2019), and the author of a short story collection, “Some Places Worth Leaving” (Tolsun Books, 2020), and “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. 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 Arts, The Rumpus, and Made Local Magazine. Her writing can also be found at Ms. Magazine, Earth Island Journal, WIRED, Utne, The Writer, Portland Review, Ploughshares, Vestal Review, Hip Mama Magazine, Rad Dad, Spirituality & Health Magazine, Shareable, Bike Monkey Magazine, Tahoma Literary Review, Prick of the Spindle, and more. She is an alumna of The Squaw Valley Community of Writers, Mendocino Coast Writers Conference, and LitCamp.