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Dani McClain is an American reporter and author. Her work centers on race and reproductive health.

Career
McClain was a staff reporter at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and a contributor to CityBeat in Cincinnati. As of 2023, McClain was a contributing writer at The Nation.

In 2014, McClain was recognized by the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association with an award for Excellence in Online Journalism. In 2018, McClain won a James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism for her writing on the experience of being Black and pregnant.

In 2020 and 2021, McClain was the writer in residence at the Cincinnati Public Library.

Personal life
McClain is a native of Cincinnati, Ohio. McClain attended Columbia University, where she earned a bachelor's degree and a M.S. from the School of Journalism. She lives in Cincinnati.

Books

 * We Live for the We: The Political Power of Black Motherhood (2019)

Essays

 * "Anxiety is killing us: so what do we do about it?," Killing Trayvons: an anthology of American violence (2014), edited by Kevin Alexander Gray, Jeffrey St. Clair, JoAnn Wypijewski
 * "Homing instinct," Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements (2015), edited by Walidah Imarisah and adrienne maree brown