Danielle Pafunda [she/they] is author of ten books of poetry and prose including Along the Road Everyone Must Travel (Saturnalia 2025) chosen by Hoa Nguyen as winner of the Saturnalia Poetry Prize, Spite (The Operating System), The Book of Scab (Ricochet Editions), and The Dead Girls Speak in Unison (Bloof Books). Pafunda teaches creative writing, worldbuilding, literature, and queer and gender studies at Rochester Institute of Technology.