Danika Dinsmore
Danika has a B.A. and teaching credential in English, an advanced certificate in screenwriting, and an M.F.A. in Writing and Poetics. She has worked as an artist-in-the-schools and media literary educator for Learning Through the Arts and has taught writing courses at Vancouver Film School, Capilano University, and Creative Writing for Children.
A seasoned spokenword artist, Danika has performed at events from the Bumbershoot Arts Festival in Seattle to the Labyrinth Poetry Series in Vienna, Austria. She has boosted the self-confidence for many teens through sound-scaping and poetry performance workshops and through her facilitation of Washington State’s first youth poetry slam. In addition to her work in poetry and spokenword art, Danika has also written and directed thirteen episodes of an educational TV show featuring the work of young video journalists.
You can find information on her novel series at thewhiteforest.com.
PUBLISHED WORKS
| Fiction | |
| ~ | Brigitta of the White Forest (2010) |
| ~ | The Ruins of Noe (2011) |
| Poetry | |
| ~ | her red book (2004) |
| ~ | Every Day Angels and Other Near Death Experiences (2002) |
| ~ | The 3:15 Experiment (2001) |
| ~ | Traffic (1997) |
| Poetry Anthologies | |
| ~ | The Return of Kral Majales: Prague’s International Literary Renaissance (2010) |
| ~ | between sleeps: the 3:15 experiment 1993-2005 (editor/contributor) (2006) |
| ~ | A Silver Sky: Poetry and Place in the Pacific Northwest (2003) |
| ~ | 100 Poets Against the War (2003) |
| ~ | Short Fuse: The Global Anthology of New Fusion Poetry (2002) |
| ~ | Woodfrogs in Chaos (editor/contributor) (1996) |
| Non-fiction | |
| ~ | The SPLAB-on-the-Road Curriculum Guide for Teaching Poetry (1998) |
