About the Author Candice Louisa Daquin has written poetry since childhood. Her early years were influenced by her grandparents who were artists and her memories of being a kid spending a lot of time displaced and transplanted, living in three different countries by her mid-twenties. Daquin grew up in Europe, the only child of intensely creative parents of Sephardic Jewish origin. Daquin's feeling of impermanence keenly influence her body of work and published her first poem at age 10 in a school magazine, before working on advertisements and modeling as a teen before studying at university. After her studies Daquin worked in the publishing industry, and spent many years sitting in the nose-bleed seats at live dance and ballet performances where she credits her inspiration and love of movement and dance. Daquin moved to the USA in 2001, accidentally becoming part of the shift in America in terms of immigration and security post 9/11. It took her many years to settle during which time she wrote about her experiences as a foreigner at a time of heightened anxiety and tension. In the US Daquin pursued Psychotherapy and worked with families in several crisis centers before concentrating on teaching and writing full time. During a year in Canada, Daquin began writing reviews of poets and writers for magazines including Rattle and The Northern Poetry Review. Having written her own poetry and prose, Daquin was urged to publish her own work and her first collection of poetry; A jar for the jarring was published by STPG in 2015. This was followed by three more books of poetry; Book Two: The bright day has gone child and you are in for the dark (TheFeatheredSleep Press, 2015) Book Three: Illusions of existing (TheFeatheredSleep Press, 2016) and Book Four: Sit in fever (TheFeatheredSleep Press, 2016). Additionally Daquin has been working on her first prose novel (a psychological thriller) and co-authored a limited edition book for her local jewish community called #JeSuisJuif, (TheFeatheredSleep Press, 2016) as well as mentoring fledgling writers to publish their work as part of her long standing belief of paying it forward. Daquin's writing is uncompromising and raw, earning a large online following via her popular blog (www.thefeatheredsleep.com) where she has collaborated with other writers, most notably, contributing to the worldwide Poets for Peace collective poem and writing regularly for Hijacked Amygdala magazine. Her work has also been published by Mansfield Press, Trivia: Voices of feminism, The Indiana Voice Magazine, The South Florida Poetry Journal, www.Ditchpoetry.com, and Memory House Magazine. Daquin brings her cultural and ethnic diversity to her writing focusing on themes such as; The experience of womanhood, alienation, societal prejudice, gender, immigration, taboos, mental health and transformation. In her spare time, Daquin loves vintage clothes, long walks, yoga, reading, dancing and geeking out on science magazines.

Pinch the Lock

Literature & Fiction

Daquin, Candice Louisa

Poetry

Finishing Line Press

Candice Louisa Daquin's collection is a mis-en-scene of beautiful dysfunction, erotic melancholy and an immigrant's dystopia. As a lesbian ageing in-sight, Daquin's wry observations of life are at times, piercing, painful and intensely telling a to human-nature and our endless foibles. Her occupations as writer, psychotherapist and activist, play against a myriad of backdrops from Southern France, Egypt and the wastelands of America. Daquin's co-editing work on two award-winning anthologies lends her the gravitas to produce a fine book of revelations about who we really are and why we're so often tainted by the same counterfeit.

Tainted by the Same Counterfeit

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

We Will Not Be Silenced: The Lived Experience of Sexual Harassment and Sexual Assault Told Powerfully Through Poetry, Prose, Essay, and Art is the brainchild of Kindra M. Austin, Candice Louisa Daquin, Rachel Finch, and Christine E. Ray. The four indie writers and survivors felt compelled to do something after the strongly triggering Kavanaugh Hearings. They decided that they would advocate, educate, and resist through art. The editors opened submissions for just two weeks to women and men around the world. The response from writers and artists was overwhelming: the final anthology includes 166 pieces of writing and art from 95 contributors around the globe.From Nicole Lyons (Blossom and Bone):'We Will Not Be Silenced' is a beautiful collection of devastating pieces, it is a siren call to survivors everywhere, and a book that should be showcased in every school, stocked on the shelves of every hospital, and sitting on the counters in every police station in the world. 'We Will Not Be Silenced' should simply be available to everyone and anyone who has ever been violated, and to everyone and anyone who would be brave enough to speak out and speak up in an era when victims still aren't being heard.

We Will Not Be Silenced: The Lived Experience of Sexual Harassment and Sexual Assault Told Powerfully Through Poetry, Prose, Essay, and Art

Austin, Kindra M.

Finch, Rachel

Ray, Christine E.

Indie Blu(e) Publishing

Kali represents the perfect metaphor of the great dissenter desperately needed in today's times, to rise above subjugate society. Kali, a goddess of strength and destruction, represents energy in its purest and feral form. Goddess Kali is an embodiment of the unfettered, and uncontrolled energy, who like nature, can create and destroy with equal ease. She is the perfect feminist icon the world needs today. "The Kali Project draws in the voices of women as women - teachers, mental health workers, writers, doctors, lawyers, bankers, social workers - adding a sharper understanding of the inner realities that patriarchal structures seek to silence, sanctified by society, religion, community, and class. With entries from children and teenagers, to poems by internationally well-known writers, the gamut of experiences is vast and reiterates the idea that art and poetry are the essential vehicles which carry the hurt and, in the process, also healing within them." -Charanjeet Kaur, Former Chief Editor and Features Editor of Muse India, currently Contributory Editor for Indian writing in English of MI. Consultant Editor of SPARROW (Sound & Picture Archives for Research On Women) Newsletter.

The Kali Project: Invoking the Goddess Within / Indian Women’s Voices

Indie Blue Publishing

Faery Flying

Harris, Patricia

Palumbo, Sergio

Publishing, Fae Corps

ELLIOTT, JENNIFER

Wright, Ruan Bradford

Slasher, Raz T.

Colon, Jodi

Vernon, Anthony David

Independently published

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