Danielle Shi

Writing

Photography

1. Peonies

Last Year at China (after Alain Resnais)
Created at Kala Art Institute
Berkeley, CA, 2026

Lumen print.

1. Peonies

Childhood
Created at Kala Art Institute
Berkeley, CA, 2026

Lumen print.

1. Oriented

Harvest
Summer Lake, OR
2025

Medium-format.

1. Mythos in Time, i & ii

Created at Kala Art Institute
Berkeley, CA, 2026
ii exhibited at Bathers Library, Cohorts Season One Group Show

Lumen print.

1. Oriented

Refuge
Summer Lake, OR

Medium-format.

1. A Chinese Money Plant Grows in Berkeley

Lady Beatles
Los Angeles, 2021

Portraiture of Asian America.

1. Boughs (left)
2. A Mountain and a Forest (right)

Boughs originally appeared in Denver Quarterly Issue 59.2, 2025
2023

Scenes of deforestation.

1. Flowering Sea

Group Show, On-Line Annex at Black Box Gallery
Yosemite Valley, CA
2023

Yosemite series.

Profile

Danielle Shi

Rowland Heights, CA

@author_danielleshi

Born in Dalian, China, Danielle was raised in Irvine, California and received a B.A. in English from UC Berkeley, where she was mentored by Fae Myenne Ng. After living in China, she went on to receive her M.A. in the Humanities at the University of Chicago, studying with W. J. T. Mitchell. She has received fellowships from Vermont Studio Center, the Prelinger Library, Winslow House Project, PLAYA Summer Lake, and The Ruby, as well as support for her writing from Left Margin LIT, Off Assignment, and the Kearny Street Workshop.

In Fall 2026, she will begin her MFA in Writing at Columbia University. She is represented by Michele Mortimer at Darhansoff & Verrill Literary Agents.

Danielle has written for zyzzyva.org, The Adroit Journal, Michigan Quarterly Review: Mixtape, The Drift, The Rumpus, The Margins, and other publications. Her poetry and prose have been nominated for Best New Poets and the PEN Dau Award, and have received recognition from Gulf Coast, Dzanc Books, and Puerto del Sol. Her photography has been shown in group and solo shows, as well as in Denver Quarterly and Common Forms. She volunteers as a mentor for the Prison Journalism Project.

Photo by Tim Tran

Education

The University of Chicago
Masters in the Humanities
2019

The University of California, Berkeley
BA English (Minor Creative Writing)
2018

Beijing University
(3 months)

Employment

College Prep 360
Essay Coach
2025 - Present

Research

Rob Sean Wilson
Research Assistant
University of California, Santa Cruz
2023

Christopher T. Fan
Research Assistant
University of California, Irvine
2020 - 2021

Sophie Volpp
Research Assistant
University of California, Berkeley
2017

Publications

Asian American Writers’ Workshop: The Margins
Bathers Library Mini Mag
California Magazine
Common Forms
Copytext Magazine
Denver Quarterly
Doll Hair
Hyphen Magazine
I Have That on Vinyl
UC Berkeley Letters & Science
Irrelevant Press
Jaded Ibis Press: Scarlet, A Literary Journal
La Piccioletta Barca
Mande: A Journal of Bipolar Talent
(upcoming) Memwa Magazine
Michigan Quarterly Review: MQR
Sine Theta Magazine
The Adroit Journal
The Annex
The Daily Californian
The Drift
The Frida Cinema
The Orange County Register
The Rumpus
UChicago Arts
UChicago News
Whale Road Review
zyzzyva

Exhibitions & Readings

The Shelter
Reading and presentation
Prelinger Library
2026

The Shelter
Reading
Light Jacket Series
2026

Mythos in Time, ii
Group Show, Cohorts Season One
Bathers Library
2026

Cotton Candy
Group Show, On-Line Annex
Black Box Gallery
2025

The Shelter (excerpt)
Literary Artist
Kearny Street Workshop APAture: (Un)Becoming
2025

林/Lean (Tree Interlude)
Solo Exhibition
The Crown: Royal Coffee Lab & Tasting Room
2025

Doll Hair
Exhibitor, Chinese Culture Center
Chinatown Ross Alley Zine Festival
2024

“Halcyon” from Unsaid (Doll Hair 2024)
Literary Artist
Kearny Street Workshop APAture: RETURN
2024

Haptic
Group Show, SHIM/Photo
Superfine! Art Fair, DC
Armstrong Gallery, CT
Aqua Art Miami, FL
United Film Lab Network, NY
2023 - 2024

Flowering Sea
Group Show, On-Line Annex
Black Box Gallery
2023

MONONOKE
Group Show, Blick Art Show
The Frida Cinema
2023

Awards

Arrhythmia
Semifinalist
Iron Horse Literary Review/Texas Tech University Press First Book of Prose Prize
2025

The Ruby
Creative-in-residence
2025 - 2026

Kala Art Institute
Artist-in-residence
2025 - 2026

Off Assignment
Scholarship award
2025 - 2026

School for Poetic Computation
Scholarship award
2025

Kearny Street Workshop Interdisciplinary Writers Lab
Scholarship award
2025

PLAYA Summer Lake
Fully-funded residency
2025

Winslow House Project
Fully-funded residency
2025

Prelinger Library
Artist-in-residence, $1,000 grant
2025

Left Margin LIT
Scholarship award
2025

Vermont Studio Center
Fully-funded residency
2025

“Halcyon”
Runner-up
Gulf Coast Barthelme Prize for Short Fiction
2025

Arrhythmia
Longlisted
Dzanc Books Prize for Fiction
2024

“Exhalations”
Finalist
Puerto del Sol Prose Contest
2024

“Two Poems in the Ruin Style [sic]”
Nominated for Best New Poets
2025

“Rosemary Folk”
Nominated for PEN Dau Prize
2023

Volunteer

zyzzyva
Staff Writer
2022 - Present

The Rumpus
Poetry Reader
2024 - Present

Prison Journalism Project
Journalism Mentor
2024 - Present

Doll Hair
Co-founder
2024 - 2026

Kearny Street Workshop
Festival Mentee
2025

Quiet Lightning
Graphics Volunteer
2024 - 2025

Chinese Culture Center
Gallery Volunteer
2024

The Frida Cinema
Blog Team Member
2022 - 2024

Red Hen Press
Production Intern
2023

Assignment01
Founder
2022 - 2023

W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
K-12 Talk Education Blog Intern
2020

WHPK 88.5FM
Radio DJ
2019

Updated 26.05.11