Dani Cessna
Author
Ghost Orchid – COMING FALL of 2026 from Lake Union Publishing!
Twenty-eight-year-old Miranda Thomas, once high-achieving and now adrift, has just begun her first season at the Shark Valley Entrance Station of Everglades National Park. She soon realizes that park rangering isn’t the glamorous adventure or escape she’d imagined. Disappointed, and still grappling with the…
The Language of the Mountains
In a country ruined by sea level rise, plague, and wildfires, Jess Diaz leaves her father’s body in their home in Las Vegas, packs a gun she doesn’t know how to use, and heads for the border wall west of the Mississippi River. Her…
The Future Beneath the River
Merritt Wagner, a long-time National Park Service employee, is hired into a management position at a national park in the wilds of Pennsylvania. A couple weeks into the new job, Merritt discovers the park exists not only to protect natural and cultural resources, but…
Endometriosis
Content Warning: Medical trauma and gore There is a blood trail behind me, smeary across the hardwood floor, streaked across the cement, and staining the pale tile. Dark clots cling to rock or dirt or pavement wherever I go. When I move, the threads…
The Quokka Crew
If you’ve spent any time at all talking to me about writing, you know that there’s one rule I live by: don’t do it alone. I owe so much of my success so far along this publishing journey to my strong support network of…
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