Dani Burlison (host) is the creator and editor of “All of Me: Stories of Love, Anger and the Female Body” (PM Press), “Some Places Worth Leaving: Short Stories” (Tolsun Books) and “Dendrophilia and Other Social Taboos: True Stories,” an essay collection based on herMcSweeney’s Internet Tendency column of the same name. She has been a staff writer at a Bay Area alt-weekly, a book reviewer for Los Angeles Review, and a regular contributor at Chicago Tribune, KQED Arts, The Rumpus, and Made Local Magazine. Her writing can also be found at Ms. Magazine, Yes! Magazine, Earth Island Journal, WIRED, Utne, Hip Mama Magazine, Rad Dad, The Writer Magazine, Portland Review, Shareable, Tahoma Literary Review, and more. Her writing also appears in several anthologies. She lives, teaches, and writes in Santa Rosa, California.