Dani Netherclift

Dani Netherclift lives on unceded Taungurung Country in the High Country of Victoria. She holds a doctorate in creative writing. Her first book, Vessel: The Shape of Absent Bodies, a long-form lyric essay about witnessing the drowning deaths of her father and brother as a teenager, and processing the idea of an absent body over time, is out now with Upswell,a nd will be published in North America in early 2026. Dani’s words have been widely published and listed in short essay and poetry forms. She is interested in tenses of grief, the body, time, archives, experimental and fragmentary writing.

• Website dani.netherclift.com.au/