Danielle LaFrance is a poet and information malprofessional. Their commitments are anchored to liberation, resistance, and pleasure.

LaFrance is the author of species branding (Capilano University Editions, 2010), Friendly + Fire (Talonbooks, 2016), JUST LIKE I LIKE IT (Talonbooks, 2019), and #postdildo (Talonbooks, 2022); chapbooks include Tentacle Rasa (Asterion Books, 2021) and pink slip (Standard Ink & Copy, 2013).

Their new book Verbal Violence (Talonbooks, 2026) is a scrolling indictment of the professional managerial class, their lack of purpose and conscience.

With Josh Rose, they collaborate on the ad infinitum intertextual sound project Yes, Sydo that explores themes of pain, grief, hospitality, political listening, and sonic and poetic possible world building using Homer’s epic Odyssey to create something anew with and against and without the canon.

Born to a Greek and Dutch hairdresser and a Franco-Manitoban musician, they somehow came to be what they are now, and mostly always reside as a guest on still occupied and still unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ lands.