Candice Louisa Daquin is a trauma-psychotherapist & editor. Her activism’s been working in crisis and immigrant centers & in editorial capacities on urgent projects including: We Will Not Be Silenced; SMITTEN This Is What Love Looks Like & The Kali Project. As an ardent feminist, her mixed-race Egyptian/French background & the experience of being a queer immigrant, impact her intention to be the change she wants to see. Daquin edits for; Indie Blu(e) Publishing, Raw Earth Ink, Queer Ink; Tint Journal; The Pine Cone Review; Parcham Literary Magazine; Life & Legends Magazine & River Paw Press. She co-judges The Northwind Writing Award & The Silent River Poetry Prize & regularly inks for World Literature Today, Different Truths, and Borderless Journal. Daquin holds an MFA in Creative Writing & after 3 poetry collections, her debut novel, The Cruelty, based upon the legacy of sexual violence, was published Fall, 2025 (FlowerSong Press).