Danielle Dutton is the author of Attempts at a Life and S P R A W L, which was a finalist for the Believer Book Award. She holds an M.F.A. from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Ph.D. from the University of Denver, where she served for several years as the associate editor of the Denver Quarterly. Dutton has been an instructor in the Jack Keruoac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa and the book designer at Dalkey Archive Press. Currently, she is an assistant professor in the M.F.A. program at Washington University in St. Louis. She is also the founder and editor of the small press Dorothy, a publishing project (which publishes fiction mostly by women, including Nell Zink, Amina Cain, Barbara Comyns, Renee Gladman, etc.). In 2015 the LA-based art press Siglio will publish Here Comes Kitty: A Comic Opera with texts by Dutton and images by Richard Kraft.
Portrait by Harold Abromowitz
