Candice Louisa Daquin is of French/Egyptian descent. Daquin worked in publishing in Europe before immigrating to America to become a Psychotherapist. Daquin is Managing Editor with Lit Fox Books (Austin, TX) and former Senior Editor of Indie Blu(e) Publishing. She is also co-founder of Gay Questions, a site for LGBTQ+ youth. She holds advanced degrees in writing and psychotherapy.

Daquin is also Editorial Partner with Raw Earth Ink (USA) and Queer Ink (India) and is Poetry Editor at Tint Bilingual Journal, Life & Legends Magazine, Writers Resist, and Parcham Literary Magazine. She also writes regularly for Different Truths and co-judges The Northwind Writing Award and the Silent River Poetry Prize. Daquin is a former Writer-in-Residence for Borderless Journal. She’s also guest-edited SETU Bilingual Journal and written for the poetry periodicals Rattle, SoFloPoJo, World Literature Today, and The Northern Poetry Review. 

Daquin is co-editor of the award winning anthologies SMITTEN This Is What Love Looks Like: Poetry by Women for Women, The Kali Project: Invoking the Goddess Within / Indian Women's Voices. Her latest collection is Tainted by the Same Counterfeit (Finishing Line Press). As a queer immigrant woman of passionate feminist beliefs concerning equality, Daquin's work and support of others, is her body of evidence. www.candicelouisadaquin.com