Candice Louisa Daquin
Curriculum Vitae
I have moved cities but I am keeping my old phone number. You can still reach me @ candicedaquin@gmail.com (210) 394 8353
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Candice Louisa Daquin is of Egyptian and French descent. Born in Europe, Daquin was the Publishing Director at the US Chamber of Commerce (UK) working closely with the US Embassy, before immigrating to America where she regularly wrote for the poetry periodicals Rattle, SoFloPoJo & The Northern Poetry Review. Currently Daquin is Managing Editor with Lit Fox Books (Austin) and Reviews Editor for Austin Poetry Review. She is also Editorial Partner with Raw Earth Ink (Alaska) and Editorial Partner with Queer Ink (India). She is a Poetry Editor with Tint Journal (Austria); Parcham Literary Magazine (India); Life & Legends Magazine and Writers Resist.
Recent former positions: Senior Editor, Indie Blu(e) Publishing (USA), Writer-in-Residence for Borderless Journal (Singapore), Poetry Editor, The Pine Cone Review and Editor with Blackbird Press (Canada). Aside freelancing widely, Daquin has edited over 20 PhD manuscripts and guest edited SETU Bilingual Journal twice. Her work has been featured in over 200 publications. Daquin co-Judgeed for the Silent River Poetry Prize, (2025), The Earth Amulet Poetry Prize (2025) and co-judges The Northwind Writing Award (2023/2024/2026).
Recent Editor/Co-Editor (can’t list them all so a cross-section) of:
Language of the Wound is Love, Megha Sood; Start a Religion, Stay out of Jail, Logan Medland; Broken Spoons: Grief’s First Year, Rachael Ikins; Defy Definitions: Celebrating Extraordinary Journeys of Underrepresented Lives. Dr. Khusi Pattanayak & Candice Daquin (Black Eagle Books); Penning Paper Moths, Trisha Shufelt, (Ophelia Press), More Animal Than Human, Mary Rogers (Indie Blu(e) Publishing); Within Flesh: Poems in conversations with ourselves and Emily Dickinson, Al Salehi & Ivy Schweitzer, (Transcendent Zero Press); The 2023/24 Northwind Treasury, Winners of the Northwind Writing Award, Tara Caribou (Raw Earth Ink); Animals, Prose Poems on Sentience, Decency and Indecency, Dr. Anita Nahal, 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); Beauty in the Breakdown, Renee Lynn Furlow; 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:
On a panel for: Poetry as a means of healing and transformation in times of trauma and war, LIVE AWP writers, with Kalpna Singh Chitnis, Volodymyr Tymchuk, Octavio Quintanilla and Олена О'Лір
Published Books:
Tainted by the Same Counterfeit, Finishing Line Press, Pinch the Lock, Finishing Line Press, A Jar for the Jarring, Palpitate Press.
The Cruelty, a psychological thriller, debut novel, 2025 FlowerSong Press.
Prizes:
Shortlisted Finalist. Harbor Edition’s Marginalia Chapbook Awards. 2025; Shortlisted Finalist. Abode Press Chapbook Awards. 2025; Shortlisted Finalist. Concrete Wolf Chapbook Awards, 2025; Co-Judge. The Silver River Poetry Prize (Sponsored by River Paw Press) 2025; Co-Judge. The Earth Amulet Prize (Sponsored by River Paw Press) 2025; Co-Judge. The NorthWind Writing Award (Sponsored by Raw Earth Ink) 2023 & 2024 & 2026; Finalist / National Indie Excellence Awards / Lead Editor & Conceptual on SMITTEN This Is What Love Looks Like (LGBTQ+ anthology of poetry; Finalist / National Indie Excellence Awards / Co-Editor with Megha Sood, on The Kali Project (Indian women poetry anthology); Featured Guest Speaker, National Poetry Month, (San Antonio); Finalist, Ann-Maria Albiach Award for poetry, (France); Finalist, Adult Ekphrastic Poetry, Gemini Ink, San Antonio; Brick Lane Bookshop (UK) Short Story Prize; Musee Fragonard Poetry Prize (France); Finalist, Le Printemps des Poètes, (France).
Fluency: English, French. / Born in Grasse, France.