Danielle Dutton is an American writer and publisher renowned for her contributions to contemporary literature. Her fiction has been featured in esteemed publications such as The New Yorker, Harper's, BOMB, The Paris Review, The White Review, Conjunctions, Guernica, and NOON. Dutton's work includes the critically acclaimed Attempts at a Life, which Daniel Handler praised as "indescribably beautiful" in Entertainment Weekly; SPRAWL, a finalist for the Believer Book Award in 2011 and later reprinted by Wave Books with an Afterword by Renee Gladman in 2018; Here Comes Kitty: A Comic Opera, featuring collages by Richard Kraft; and the novel Margaret the First.

In 2010, she co-founded the feminist press Dorothy, a publishing project, named after her great aunt Dorothy, a librarian who navigated the back hills of southern California with a bookmobile. The press has garnered attention for its commitment to publishing innovative works by women writers over the past decade.