Biography

 At age fourteen, Dane Kuttler cut her teeth on a badly adjusted mic at Cool Beans Cafe in northern New Jersey and learned to perform poetry. 

In college, Dane became a regular at the Hampshire Slam Collective, and participated in the first-ever Women of the World Poetry Slam in Detroit, MI.  After a long summer tour, and some time in the NYC area, Dane relocated to Seattle in April 2009.   Since her arrival, she has become a Seattle Poetry Slam regular, competed in several national-level slams, become a Write Bloody finalist, completed 365 poems in 365 days as part of the 2010 poem-a-day project and published over a dozen poems. 

Her poetry is often lyrical and narrative, exploring themes of Jewish and queer identities, with a lot of love poems to her grandparents.  The most common format for her work is the exploration of a relationship between two people that connects to broader political and social themes.   She has featured in coffee shops, living rooms, libraries, back porches and the occasional auditorium, but her favorite venue has always been her first - a dilapidated tree house with sixteen stuffed animals for an audience.


*Photo by Rasmus Rasmussen