[1] She earned a BA in Russian literature and creative writing from Bard College in New York.
Her first collection, Pretty Young Thing, was published by Soft Skull Press in 2005.
Her poems and essays have appeared in American Poet, Conjunctions, Denver Quarterly, Kenyon Review, and others.
Danielle Pafunda's books include: Her poems appear in: Her poems, essays, and short stories have appeared in American Poet, Conjunctions, Denver Quarterly, Fairy Tale Review, Kenyon Review and The Huffington Post.
Pafunda is a neo-gothic feminist poet interested in bodies, power, and pain: “I have always had to, and will always have to, live consciously within the meat of the body, and this meat life influences every fiber of my politics/poetics.” “In poetry I try to do at least one thing consistently: to attract the gaze, to pin or fix it in place, and then show it those sights which brutalize, horrify, repulse, or shame it.”