Danielle Dutton is a writer and editor from California.

She is the author of two novels: Margaret the First (Catapult, US; Scribe, UK/Australia; Wydawnictwo Kobiece, Poland) and SPRAWL (Siglio Press & Wave Books, US); two prose collections: Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other (Coffee House Press, US; Prototype, UK) and Attempts at a Life (Tarpaulin Sky, US); and an illustrated nonfiction chapbook on fiction/visual art called A Picture Held Us Captive (ImageTextIthaca, US). Recent fiction appears in the anthology Double Feature (Saint Lucy Books, US).

Her fiction and criticism has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Harper’s Magazine, BOMB Magazine, n+1, The White Review, Conjunctions, The Brooklyn Rail, Fence, NOON, and elsewhere. She has written the introduction to books by Renee Gladman, Ann Quin, and Allison Carter, and has collaborated on artists’ books with visual artists Richard Kraft, Magali Reus, and Courtney Stephens. Dutton has been interviewed for or profiled by the Los Angeles Times, Elle, Nylon, Publishers Weekly, Paris Review Daily, and the “Between the Covers” podcast by David Naimon, etc.

Dutton has worked in publishing for nearly two decades. She was the production manager and then the book designer at the nonprofit publisher Dalkey Archive Press from 2007 to 2011. In 2009, she co-founded 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. In addition to editorial work, Dutton does both the cover and text design and composition for all of Dorothy’s books. In 2020, Dutton and her partner Martin Riker 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.

Image: Photograph discovered in receding floodwater. Danielle Dutton, North Carolina, 2002, taken by Martin Riker.

Agent: Harriet Moore at Aitken Alexander Associates