Cover Photo: Photograph by  Matthias Wagner/Unsplash
Photograph by Matthias Wagner/Unsplash

How Stand-Up Comedy Helped Me Craft a Public Writer Persona

Writing my first jokes, I’d replaced my anxieties over the public-facing demands of an author career with a greater willingness to show up and be seen.


Lindsey Danis writes fiction and essays that center LGBTQ voices, celebrate queer joy, and expand media representations of queer lives. Lindsey's essays have appeared in Condé Nast Traveler, AFAR, Fodor's, and Longreads, received a notable mention in Best American Travel Writing, and are forthcoming in several anthologies. Lindsey is currently working on a novel, and their fiction has appeared in Oyster River Pages, Voyage YA Journal and elsewhere. When not writing, Lindsey is often found hiking or kayaking in the Hudson Valley.