Dana Kinsey has a BA in English and an MA in Theater from Villanova University. She is a poet, actor, freelance writer, fine-arts teacher, and theater director.

Her poetry and prose have been published by several national and international literary journals, including ​On The Sea Wall, Sledgehammer Lit, West Trestle Review, Porcupine Literary, ONE ART, Prose Online, Spillwords Press, Tweetspeak, Silver Needle Press, Writers Resist, The Yellow Chair Review, The Broadkill Review, Fledgling Rag, and For Women Who Roar.

Her stage play, WaterRise, premiered at the Gene Frankel Theatre in Greenwich Village in 2015 and was also produced by Sagesse Productions as a short film.  

She is currently the Director of the Spartan Writing Lab at Saint Mark's High School in Wilmington, Delaware. She also serves as a Reviews Editor for Tinderbox.

Dana's poetry chapbook Mixtape Venus was published in April 2022 from I. Giraffe Press and is available for purchase online.