Danika Dinsmore

Danika Dinsmore grew up in Northern California. She graduated with a degree in English and a teaching credential from California Lutheran University and with an MFA in Writing and Poetics from Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado (The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics). With poet Bernadette Mayer, she began an ongoing collaborative writing project called the 3:15 Experiment, portions of which were published by Owl Press in 2000 and En Theos Press in 2006. She moved to Seattle, Washington in 1995 and earned an Advanced Certificate in Screenwriting from the University of Washington. She became well-known in Seattle for her experimental and collaborative poetry, her spokenword performances, and her involvement in producing multi-disciplinary literary arts events. Her first book of poetry, Traffic, was released in 1996 and in 1999 she won the Washington Poets Association award for Performance Poetry. In the early 2000s she turned her attention to screenwriting. She moved to Canada in 2003 where she began making short films and teaching creative writing courses. She currently lives in British Columbia and is married to music maven Ken Ashdown.