Candice Louisa Daquin is of Mizrahi/Sephardi Egyptian and French descent. Born in Europe, Daquin was the Publishing Director at the U.S., Embassy / Chamber of Commerce (UK) before immigrating to America to study and become a Psychotherapist, where she has continued writing and editing whilst practicing as a Psychotherapist.
Daquin has worked at Jewish Community Centers and Rape Crisis Centers both in the UK, Texas and Canada. Her area of specialization is adults sexually abused as children. She is also co-founder of www.gayquestions.com, a site for LGBTQ+ youth. Prior to publishing her own poetry collections, Daquin regularly wrote for the poetry periodicals Rattle and SoFloPoJo & The Northern Poetry Review.
Daquin is Senior Editor at Indie Blu(e) Publishing, a feminist micro-press and Editorial Partner with Raw Earth Ink. She is an editor for Tint Journal (Austria), Writer-in-Residence for Borderless Journal (Singapore), Editor of Poetry & Art for The Pine Cone Review (Austria & India), Poetry Editor for Parcham Literary Magazine (India) and freelancer for poetry and prose. She has also edited over 20 PhD manuscripts. Daquin has been guest-editor for SETU twice. Her work has been featured in over 200 publications.
Daquin's own poetic work takes its form from the confessional women poets of the 19th and 20th century as well as queer authors writing from the 1950's onward. Her career(s) teaching critical thinking and practicing as a psychotherapist have heavily influenced her work, with explored key themes including; sexual-abuse, parental-relationships, mental illness and queer-identity.
As a queer woman of mixed ethnicity and passionate feminist beliefs concerning equality, Daquin's poetry is her body of evidence.
Recent Poetry in Anthologies:
Aquality: tales from the depths, Ed. Geetha Nair & Vineetha Mekkoth, TDW Press
Heartstrings: A Tapestry of Prose & Poetry, Ed. Sanjula Sharma, Authors Press
Manushatvam Songs of Humanity: We Rise by Lifting Others, Ed. Dr. Roopali Sircar Gaur & Prasanna Kkumar, Authors Press
Angst: Of Belonging and Not Belonging, Anita Joseph, Dr. Roopali Sicar Gaur, TDW Publishing
He She, and It, the Grammar of Marriage, River Group Book
Faery Flying: The art of self care, Fae Corps Publishing
Silent Tears of a Woman, (Margie Watts)
Dear You: Poems through the heart, Red Penguin Collection
Soul Spaces: Poems on cities, towns and villages, Authors Press
Sunflowers: Ukrainian Poetry on war, resistance, hope and peace (Ed. Kalpna Singh Chitnis) (River Paw Press)
Kaleidoscope Anthology of international poets, Ed. Dr. Laksmisree Banerjee, International Publishing Center
LGBTQ Anthology 'Out Loud,' Read or Green Books
Zoo Anthology (Ed. Steve Carr) Sweety Cat Press
Writers Speak (Vol 1) (Ed. Sagar Kumar Sharma)
Body Of Memories: A Collection of Memoirs & Personal Essays (Ed. Lopamudra Banerjee)
Lilith - INNSÆI: International Journal of Creative Literature for Peace and Humanity
The Brown Critique “Home” Anthology, The Brown Critique
Oxygen: Parables of Pandemic, River Paw Press
Cuckoo In Crisis: 25 Women Poets, Akhand Publishing House
Boundless 2021: The anthology of the Rio Grande Valley International Poetry Festival
Paws Healing the Earth, River Paw Press
Overcoming Fear: Based on true events, Wingless Dreamer
The Poets Symphony: Verses, Melodies and Lyrical Poems, Raw Earth Ink
Texas Best Emerging Poets, Z Publishing House
Torrid Literature Journal (Vol. XXIV) Beauty for Ashes (TLV)
All the Lonely People, Free Verse Revolution
America's Emerging Poets 2018: West Region, Z Publishing House
Recent Editor/Co-Editor of:
Within Flesh: Poems in conversations with our selves and Emily Dickinson, Al Salehi & Ivy Schweitzer, (Transcendent Zero Press)
The 2023 Northwind Treasury, Winners of the Northwind Writing Award, Tara Caribou (Raw Earth Ink)
Little Skeletons, Emje McCarty (Raw Earth Ink)
Darker Objects: Christine Ray & Friends (Indie Blu(e) Publishing)
Sunder the Silence, Trisha Leigh Shufelt (Ophelia's Pen Press)
Reflections of a Thought, Gadier Hein Garcia (Raw Earth Ink)
Fairy of Disenchantment, Sun Hesper Jansen (Indie Blu(e) Publishing)
Pulse, Melissa Fadul (Raw Earth Ink)
Meticulous, Daniel White (DB Wright Publishing)
The Comment Poems: Encounters with contagious poets, Robert G. Wertzler (Raw Earth Ink)
Love Letters to Ukraine by Uyava, Kalpna Singh Chitnis (River Paw Press)
The Scars We Don't See: Micro-fiction Observations, Cassa Bassa (Raw Earth Ink)
Full Throated Stirrings: Poems written in the Millennium, Dr. Archana Bahadur Zutshi
Recipe for Ladyfinger Pickle, Kamayani Vashischt
Mannequin of our Times, Vandana Kumar (World Inkers Publishing)
The Woman with 3 Elbows, Rachael Ikins (Raw Earth Ink)
We Are Not Okay: Elegy for a Broken America, Christian Livermore (Indie Blu(e) Publishing)
Hospital Poems, Nancy Dunlop (Indie Blu(e) Publishing)
Red: Poetry & Prose, Mira Hadlow (BlackBird Press)
Hungry for Ghosts, Kristin Kory (Blackbird Press)
Wicker Basket Mind, D. W. Wright (DB Wright Publishing)
The New Condemned: Contemporary Albanian Poetry in English (Ed. Dustin Pickering) (World Inkers Publishing)
The Gift of Mercy, Annette Kalandros (Raw Earth Ink)
Dirty Words, Sarah Lilius (Indie Blu(e) Publishing)
SETU International (Guest Editor August 2022 'Colors of Equality' issue) (SETU Publishing)
Girl on a Swing, D. B. Wright (Blackbird Press)
Relative Traumas, Nadia Garofalo (self-published chapbook)
Four: Poetry & Art, Tara Caribou, (Raw Earth Ink)
But You Don’t Look Sick: The Real Life Adventures of Fibro Bitches, Lupus Warriors and other Super Heroes Battling Invisible Illness (Indie Blu(e) Publishing)
The Killing Holiday, Kindra Austin (Indie Blu(e) Publishing)
Some Words Never Sleep, Zinia Mitra, (Indie Blu(e) Publishing)
Through The Looking Glass: Reflecting on Madness and Chaos Within, (Indie Blu(e) Publishing)
The Kali Project: Invoking the Goddess Within / Indian Women's Voices, (Indie Blu(e) Publishing)
As the World Burns: Writers and Artists Reflect on a World Gone Mad, (Indie Blu(e) Publishing)
Crimson Skins, Devika Mathur, (Indie Blu(e) Publishing)
Season of the Sorceress, Melody Lee (Indie Blu(e) Publishing)
Flowers on the Wall, Kristiana Reed, (self-published poetry collection)
SMITTEN This Is What Love Looks Like: Poetry by Women for Women, (Indie Blu(e) Publishing)
Luminarium, Maria Gianna Iannucci (self-published poetry collection)
The Myths of Girlhood, Christine Ray (Indie Blu(e) Publishing
Dead's Haven (Olivia & Hale Book 3) Nicolas Gagnier
Arc Light, John Biscello (Indie Blu(e) Publishing)
We Will Not Be Silenced: The Lived Experience of Sexual Harassment and Sexual Assault Told Powerfully Through Poetry, Prose, Essay, and Art, (Indie Blu(e) Publishing)
Recent Events:
Poetry as a means of healing and transformation in times of trauma and war, LIVE AWP writers 2023, with Kalpna Singh Chitnis, Volodymyr Tymchuk, Octavio Quintanilla and Олена О'Лір
Own Poetry Collections:
A Jar for the Jarring (South Texas Press / republished by Palpitate Press)
The Bright Day Has Gone Child and You Are in for the Dark (chapbook - out of print)
Pinch the Lock (Finishing Line Press)
Tainted by the Same Counterfeit (Finishing Line Press)
Fiction:
The Cruelty: A novel (pending)
