Danielle Harms writes from Wisconsin, where she earned a PhD in English and a Graduate Certificate in Women and Gender Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She coordinates the Book Drop reading series with the poet Angela Voras-Hills. Started in 2024, the Book Drop is a free, monthly event featuring indie authors.
Her fiction, essays, and poetry have been published in Conjunctions, Mid-American Review, New Letters, and the American Literary Review. She is a winner of an AWP Intro Journals Award, a Pushcart Prize nominee, and a staff scholar at both the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers Conference and the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. At UW-Milwaukee she was awarded a Distinguished Graduate Student Fellowship, a Digital Humanities Teaching Fellowship, a Distinguished Dissertator Fellowship, and a UWM Teaching Fellow Award. Her work made the “Notable Essays” list in the 2023 Best American Essays.
At UW-Milwaukee, she advised the undergraduate-run journal Furrow Magazine and served as Cream City Review‘s Creative Nonfiction Editor. She received her MFA from George Mason University, where was the editor-in-chief of Phoebe and an Assistant Term Professor. She was previously an Assistant Teaching Professor of English at Marquette University.
She is at work on a novel about female friendship and the complications of pregnancy in Post-Roe Wisconsin.