First Date
By Dani Putney
“I’m the ultimate possibility, by which / I mean I wither beside my family tree.”
Dani Putney is a queer, non-binary, mixed-race Filipinx, & neurodivergent writer originally from Sacramento, California. Salamat sa Intersectionality (Okay Donkey Press, May 2021) is their debut full-length poetry collection. Their poems appear in outlets such as Cosmonauts Avenue, Foglifter, & Grist, while their personal essays can be found in journals such as Cold Mountain Review & Glassworks Magazine. They received their MFA in Creative Writing from Mississippi University for Women & are presently an English PhD student at Oklahoma State University. While not always (physically) there, they permanently reside in the middle of the Nevada desert.
By Dani Putney
“I’m the ultimate possibility, by which / I mean I wither beside my family tree.”