Dini McCullough Amozurrutia is a Mexican-American writer, artist, entrepreneur, and public interest lawyer raised in Texas and Montgomery County, Maryland. She moved to Los Angeles in 2026. She’s also the founding editor and publisher of the now-defunct Origins Journal.

Her current visual work is Calaveras, an ongoing series of black-and-white ink drawings rooted in the Día de los Muertos tradition. Her work was shown at DTLA ArtNight in August 2024.

She writes essays on food, identity, and culture at The Quiet Kitchen on Substack. Her poems, essays, and short stories have appeared in Kweli Journal, PANK, The Butter, and other literary journals, and her fiction has been recognized by The Texas Observer and Bethesda Magazine.

She is the recipient of a 2020 Arts & Humanities COVID-19 Relief Fund grant as well as a 2016 and 2018 Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County Individual Artist Award.