Danielle Hanson is author of The Night Is What It Eats (forthcoming, Elixir Press Prize), Fraying Edge of Sky (Codhill Press Poetry Prize), and Ambushing Water (Finalist, Georgia Author of the Year), and editor of Objects in This Mirror: An Anthology of Legacy (Press 53) and two books of literary criticism. She is Marketing Director for Sundress Publications, Writer-in-Residence at UC Irvine, and Poet Laureate of Costa Mesa, CA.