Danielle LaFrance

Danielle LaFrance is a poet, librarian, and independent scholar who lives, rents, and works on the stolen lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and Səl̓ílwətaʔ peoples. She is the author of JUST LIKE I LIKE IT, Friendly + Fire, and species being (Capilano University Editions 2010). Chapbooks include Tentacle Rasa (Asterion Press 2020) and Pink Slip (Standard Ink & Copy Press 2013).

Her forthcoming poetry project #postdildo thinks and writes through the limitlessness and limitations of sexuality and desire. Focusing on the dildo as sexual object and social relation, she asks “How shall You fuck without causing harm?” Her poetry and critical writing have appeared in The Capilano Review, LESTE, Tripwire, Organism for Poetic Research, among other journals and magazines.