Dani Jansen is an English and drama teacher who lives in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. Her writing has appeared in This Magazine, Lunch Ticket, The A3 Review, and Fiction Southeast. Her debut novel, The Year Shakespeare Ruined My Life, came out in Fall 2020 and won two Goldie awards. It was also a finalist for the Quebec Writers’ Federation Janet Savage Blachford Prize. 

Dani spent her teen years in rural Nova Scotia and attended the University of King’s College in Halifax. She completed her Master’s in English literature from Dalhousie University. Her family still lives in Nova Scotia, where she makes a pilgrimage every year to swim in the Atlantic Ocean.