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@HolySchmidt

map marker Seattle, WA

My name is Danna, rhymes with Banana. I'm a PNW writer, adoptee & ceremonialist at work on a speculative memoir about family secrets.

Waypoint Ceremonies
Roxane Gay's The Audacity (Substack); "Bone Mother" Essay (July 2026)
ALTARed MOMENTS (Substack)
Relative Strangers: Inheritance, Identity, and the Meaning of Kinship
Okay Donkey Magazine: Adoptee Rejection: a Found Poem (June 2026)
Abracadabra! Adoptee Fortune Teller Kit
The Sun Magazine; "Readers Write" (Dec. 2025 - story #2)
Podcast Episode: Adoptee Healing Rituals (June 2025)
Essay: "Prey" - Adoption Voices e-zine (Spring 2025)
Letter: "Dear Younger Self..."; Severance Magazine (Nov. 2024)
Poem: "Last Call" - Raven Chronicles (May 2023)
Ritual Inspo; 20 Creative Grad Ideas (Spring 2020)