Danielle Shi 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 ordinariness in personal media, namely thematized around disability and kinship within the context of Asian America and larger conceptions of nationhood and transcultural diasporic identity.

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, and Hyphen Magazine. “Rosemary Folk” was nominated for the 2023 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers.

These days, she is a partner and a reader, with values like generosity, compassion, and empathy coming into view. She enjoys cozying up with a box of fresh strawberries and cool drinks, dressing up for walks to the Rose Garden, and recovering the past through evenings with loved ones. Usually, she can be found writing a letter by snail mail, or in transit.