Awards

★ Return to the Place I Never Left is a National Jewish Book Award winner

★ Return to the Place I Never Left is a 2026 IPPY Award Bronze Medalist recipient in the Poetry – Specialty category

★ Return to the Place I Never Left is shortlisted for the 2026 ALTA First Translation Prize

★ Dani James is a CUNY Alumni 50 Under 50 Award recipient

★ Hour of Lead, awarded 1st place, Sidney Harman Fiction Writers Competition, judged by Eduardo Halfon

★ En Masse, included in the We Rise to Resist anthology which received a Booklist starred review and won 3 awards at the 2018 American Book Fest International Awards competition, placing 1st in the Anthology and Social Change categories, and as a finalist in the Women’s Issues category

★ Breach, awarded 2nd place, Sidney Harman Fiction Writers Competition, judged by Elif Batuman

★ Her Breast, awarded 2nd place, Sidney Harman Fiction Writers Competition, judged by Amitav Ghosh

★ Drown, awarded 3rd place, Fiction category, CUNY / Labor Arts Contest

★ Frayed, finalist, Brooklyn Book Festival competition

Podcasts

Media & Press

• Return to the Place I Never Left named to 2026 ALTA First Translation Prize shortlist – ALTA
• How Dani James Brought a Holocaust Survivor’s Story to English Readers – Detroit Jewish News
• Why Tobias Schiff’s Plain-Spoken Memoir Is Essential for a New Generation – Detroit Jewish News
• Translating the Unspeakable: Weissman Alumna Dani James Acclaimed for her Translation of Holocaust Survival Memoir – Baruch Weissman School of Arts & Sciences Feature
• Jewish Book Council Fetes Award Honorees – Publisher’s Weekly
• 75th National Jewish Book Awards – eJewishPhilanthropy
• 75th Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award Winners – Jewish Book Council
• Book Review: Return to the Place I Never Left – Jewish Book Council
• Author’s Guild Spotlight: Dani James – Author’s Guild
• WORD PLAY Press Release – The Revolving Museum
• Hoodie First by Dani James – WORD PLAY

Video

Events

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