Dani Powell is a writer and performance-maker, who grew up in
Brisbane and has lived in Mparntwe/ Alice Springs since 1999. Her short
stories and poetry have been published in several literary journals and anthologies and her poem Sketch of this Day won the Poetry Prize in the NT Literary Awards in
2009. Her outdoor, location-based performances have been produced in
and around Alice Springs since 1999, with her company red shoes. Her
performance Under Today – traces of Eastside, Mparntwe, Alice Springs was redeveloped for Radio National in 2015.

Dani was formerly Community Producer of Big hART’s Ngapartji
Ngapartji project and currently works with senior Pitjantjatjara and
Nyaanyatjarra women and ngangkari on NPY Women’s Council’s ‘Uti Kulintjaku’ project. Dani directs the NT Writers’ Festival in Alice Springs. Return to Dust is her first full-length work of fiction.