About Dani
About Dani
Dani Spinks is a writer, graphic designer, amateur photographer and marketing consultant who is dogged by Chomsky, charmed by celebrity chefs, and tyrannised by her own de-constructive tendencies.
Fortuitously, she deciding against a combat officer military career when the inner conflict between steely-eyed killing machine and pacifist vegetarian Buddhist could not be satisfactorily resolved.
After dumping the weapons and replacing the armoury kit for a photographic one, she began working as a freelance journalist. She later embarked on an autodidactic path of graphic design in which to present her words in order to actually get paid. It helped a lot.
Whilst interned between the walls of Japanese companies, various water-cooler conversations and envelope-stuffing interludes saw Dani develop sub-standard Japanese language skills, of which she became improportionately proud.
Most incongruously, through the use of tapes, aural observations, and mimicry she was able to exact an authentic pronunciation with which to deliver her idiotic utterances. She then lived in Japan for a time where she subjected others to both.
Since returning to Australia, Danielle relocated to the cool-climate Southern Highlands where she savours literature like fine wine and writes a bad novel every decade.
Dani has a Bachelor of Media Arts & Communications, a Diploma of Journalism, and a Master of Marketing in the works.
Her writing and photographic work have appeared in:
- The Sydney Morning Herald
- Central Coast Express
- Southern Highland News
- Bewildering Stories
- Opus
- Jordan’s Crossing Gazette
- a number fiction anthologies
- various blogs under other people’s names
- and three original plays performed by Tantrum Theatre and 2 Til 5.
She has been described as “young, personable, dishevelled.”