Danielle Pafunda is the author of ten full-length books and two chapbooks, including Spite (The Operating System), Beshrew (Dusie Press), and The Dead Girls Speak in Unison (Bloof Books), which has been translated into Spanish by the writer Cristina Rivera Garza as Las Chicas Muertas Hablan al Uní sono (Dharma Books). The Book of Scab, an autofictional lyric, won the Ricochet Editions Troubling the I prize. Pafunda's work has appeared in American Poetry Review, BAX: Best American Experimental Writing, and Conjunctions, and she teaches at Rochester Institute of Technology.