Dani Oliver is a writer from the Midwest who spent the better half of her life in Los Angeles. She currently lives in Brooklyn where she works for n+1.

Her poetry and fiction has been published or is forthcoming in A Public Space, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Barrelhouse, Washington Square Review, Poet Lore, The Rupture, The Rumpus, Portland Review, Shooter Literary Magazine, Origins Journal, and others. She has a background in both theatre and arts journalism, and is the founding editor of @ This Stage Magazine—a program of the nonprofit arts service organization, LA STAGE Alliance—and a former editor of the digital arts and culture publication, Daily BR!NK.

She is a graduate of the University of Southern California’s theatre and creative writing programs, where she was named a Virginia Middleton Creative Writing Award winner and awarded the Candace Silverman Memorial Scholarship by David St. John and Carol Muske-Dukes. She later received her MFA in creative writing from Rutgers University–Camden, where she was awarded an Interdisciplinary Fellowship.