Danielle Dutton is a Californian who lives in the Midwest. She is the author of the novels Margaret the First and SPRAWL and the collections Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other and Attempts at a Life. She also wrote the text interpolations in Richard Kraft’s Here Comes Kitty: A Comic Opera and an illustrated nonfiction chapbook on fiction/visual art called A Picture Held Us Captive. Her fiction and criticism has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The White Review, Conjunctions, The Brooklyn Rail, Music & Literature, Harper’s, BOMB, Fence, NOON, etc. She has written the introduction to books by Renee Gladman, Ann Quin, and Allison Carter. New work is forthcoming in various collaborations with artists Richard Kraft, Magali Reus, and Courtney Stephens.

In 2009, Dutton co-founded, with Martin Riker, the award-winning independent press Dorothy, a publishing project. The press was named for her great aunt Dorothy, a librarian, rose gardener, animal lover, and children’s book author who drove a station wagon through the backroads of Southern California, delivering books to rural desert communities. Over the years, Dorothy has published books by established innovative writers including Renee Gladman, Cristina Rivera Garza, Amina Cain, Nathalie Léger, and Leonora Carrington, and it launched the publishing careers of Nell Zink, Suzanne Scanlon, Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, Jen George, and Giada Scodellaro. Dutton does the cover and text design/composition for Dorothy’s books. In 2020, Riker and Dutton won the Golden Colophon Award for Paradigm Independent Publishing from the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses. The press’s titles have been listed for or won The National Book Award, The Shirley Jackson Award, The Goldsmiths Prize, The Republic of Consciousness Prize, and others.

Agent: Harriet Moore at Aitken Alexander Associates