Danielle Pieratti is a poet, translator, and educator whose recent poems and translations have appeared in Meridian, Mid-American Review, Ambit, Poetry Daily, and Asymptote.  She is the author of the poetry collections Approximate Body (Carnegie Mellon University Press 2023), and Fugitives (Lost Horse Press 2016), as well as chapbooks The Post, the Cage, the Palisade (Dancing Girl Press 2015), and Edda chapbook winner By the Dogstar (Sarasota Poetry Theatre Press 2005). Additional honors include The Paris Review's Bernard F. Conners Poetry Prize, the Idaho Prize for Poetry, the Connecticut Book Award for Poetry, and fellowships from the Aetna Endowment, the Connecticut Women's Club, and the Bread Loaf Translators' Conference. Transparencies, her translated volume of works by Italian poet Maria Borio, was released by World Poetry Books in 2022. 

Danielle holds an MFA in poetry from Columbia University, where she was a Benjamin T. Burns fellow, and has additional degrees from Carnegie Mellon University, SUNY at Albany, and the University of Connecticut. She has taught in secondary and post-secondary settings for twenty years. As a public high school teacher and teacher-consultant for the National Writing Project, she regularly coaches teacher-writers and presents on writing and literature pedagogies for secondary and post-secondary educators. She lives in Connecticut, where her PhD work at the University of Connecticut merges contemporary poetry, translation, and translingual writing studies.