Dani Fankhauser is a writer and energy healer. Her debut novel Sister Earth comes out on Oct. 5, 2025.

She hosts an online community for intuitive writers, Vocal Oracles.

Her fiction has been published by NonBinary Review, HAD, Sheepshead Review, and Nightshade Publishing, and long listed by Uncharted Magazine. She’s written about wellness and technology for Refinery29, Well+Good, The Cut, and Mashable. As a startup founder, she’s had her mobile apps covered in the WSJ and featured by Apple.

She received a M.S. in journalism at Medill School of Journalism and B.A. in business at Point Loma Nazarene University. She is based in Laguna Beach, where she leads a weekly Shut Up & Write chapter, and enjoys long walks with her rescue chihuahua, Buttercup.