Here's my bio:
Danny Caine is the author of the poetry collections Continental Breakfast, El Dorado Freddy's, Flavortown, and Picture Window, as well as the books How to Resist Amazon and Why and How to Protect Bookstores and Why. His poetry has appeared in The Slowdown, LitHub, DIAGRAM, HAD, and Barrelhouse, and his prose has appeared in LitHub and Publishers Weekly. The Midwest Independent Booksellers Association awarded him the 2019 Midwest Bookseller of the Year award. He is the Program Operations Coordinator at Literary Cleveland, and a co-owner of the Raven Book Store, Publishers Weekly's 2022 bookstore of the year.
- Cleveland Review of Books reviewed Flavortown
- I was a guest on the Shakespeare & Company podcast
- My poem "Romance is in the Air" was the June 10, 2022 featured poem on The Slowdown
- Casey Cep wrote a profile of the Raven for The New Yorker
- I was profiled for the Columbia Tribune
- I went on WAMC's The Roundtable
- I talked resisting Amazon on KPR Presents
- I talked resisting Amazon on KCUR's Up to Date
- Publishers Weekly did a profile of me and the Raven
- Business Insider, of all places, talked to me
- I wrote an op-ed lamenting new Amazon warehouses in Kansas
- I wrote about the USPS for Publishers Weekly
- I was on the Today Show (briefly) talking about the USPS
- I appeared on KCUR's Central Standard to discuss the USPS
- The New York Times talked about the Raven's pandemic adaptations
- I appeared on KPR Presents to discuss chain restaurant poetry
- I appeared on KCUR's Central Standard to discuss chain restaurant poetry
- I I wrote about Amazon and free speech for Literary Hub
- I appeared on the Hybrid Pub Scout podcast
- I appeared on Mystery to Me Bookstore's Open Books podcast
- Mary Schmich wrote a column for The Chicago Tribune about my tweets
- Literary Hub interviewed my bookstore
- Shelf Awareness has written several articles about my work at The Raven.
- Here I am in The Pitch Kansas City discussing Continental Breakfast
- Here I am discussing Continental Breakfast on KCUR
- Here I am discussing my top books of 2018 on NPR'S On Point
- Here I am recommending a book on Minnesota Public Radio
- Here I am recommending another book on Minnesota Public Radio
- Here I am recommending another another book on Minnesota Public Radio
- Here's a newspaper article about my bookstore.
- Here's a short documentary about me & my bookstore, starting at 18:12
- Here's another newspaper article about my bookstore.
- I'm part of Humanities Kansas's Movement of Ideas Campaign
- Here's an interview I did with Cutbank about my house.
photo by Christiana Cacciato