Danielle Shi (she/her) is a writer from Dalian, China. She spent her formative years in Irvine, California, going on to study English at the University of California, Berkeley and the Humanities at the University of Chicago with W.J.T. Mitchell, focusing on Media Aesthetics. Her latest foray into imaging navigates forms of the quotidian in personal media, namely thematized around disability and kinship within the context of Asian America and larger conceptions of nationhood and diaspora.
She is the author of artist books Petrichor and Unsaid (Doll Hair, 2024), ENFANT; a cowboy ballad (Irrelevant Press, 2023), the chapbook Feelings/Piano 感情/琴, and limited run zine Metronome. Her writing can be found at The Rumpus (forthcoming), La Piccioletta Barca, the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Jaded Ibis Press, Berkeley Letters & Science, California Magazine, UChicago Arts, UChicago News, ZYZZYVA Magazine Blog, Sine Theta Magazine, The Frida Cinema Blog, The Drift, Hyphen Magazine, and the Orange County Register. “Rosemary Folk” was nominated for the 2023 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. She is a 2024 APAture RETURN Literary Arts Artist at the Kearny Street Workshop in San Francisco. In 2025, her work on her novel The Shelter is being supported by residency awards at Vermont Studio Center and PLAYA Summer Lake.