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Danielle Wilde

Danielle Wilde is a poet and writer from Yorkshire. Her work examines class, culture, desire and the queer hauntology of the North. Her words have appeared in Vogue, Dazed, Stylist and the fevered dreamscapes of tracksuit nihilists across the West Riding.

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Danielle Wilde has performed for Queer Bloomsbury festival at Charleston House, LGBTQ+ Late at Wallace Collection, Outspoken at South Bank Centre and as part of Caleb Femi’s Sloghouse collective for Deptford Literature Festival and Bold Tendencies. Her first pamphlet Deep North was published by FEM Press in 2024 and her sonnet cycle Saint Joan of BFD was published in 2025 as part of her residency with Wild Pansy Press at Florence Trust.

She is currently working on her first collection, North Sea Scrolls, a queering of the canonical Bible set in the Hull punk/ DIY scene of the early 2000s