Dani Burlison has been a staff writer for a Bay Area alt-weekly, a columnist for McSweeney's Internet Tendency and a book reviewer for The Los Angeles Review. Her writing also appears or is forthcoming in places like The Chicago Tribune, The Rumpus, Ploughshares, Hip Mama Magazine, Rad Dad, Spirituality & Health Magazine, Shareable, Prick of the Spindle, and more. She is a Squaw Valley Writers Workshop and Lit Camp alumna and lives in Northern California, where she slings zines, teaches writing classes and plans adventures with her two daughters. Her collection of essays, Dendrophilia and Other Social Taboos: True Stories, is her first book. She can be found at www.daniburlison.com