Candice Louisa Daquin is of 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 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 was also co-founder of www.gayquestions.com [2], 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.

From its inaugeral publication, Daquin was Senior Editor at Indie Blu(e) Publishing, a feminist micro-press. She was an integral part of the companies vision to support, highlight and publish minority voices and neglected subjects. Indie Blu(e) ran for seven years before closing its doors. During this time, Daquin and her colleagues published a wealth of award-winning anthologies and individual collections from diverse and erased authors on notable subjects including: Feminism, #metoo, invisible illnesses, mental illness, social-unrest and upheaval, racism, poverty and inequity.

Daquin has been an Editorial Partner with Raw Earth Ink since 2022. This Alaska-based publishing house, puts out individual and anthology collections from contemporary writers, with an emphasis on supporting upcoming-fledgling authors and those obscure talents that are overlooked by the mainstream. 

Currently Daquin also regularly edits for Tint Journal (Austria); Queer Ink (India); Editor of Poetry & Art for The Pine Cone Review (Austria & India), Poetry Editor for Parcham Literary Magazine (India) and freelancer for poetry and prose.

Daquin is former-Writer-in-Residence for Borderless Journal (Singapore), and former editor with Blackbird Press (Canada). She has also edited over 20 PhD manuscripts. Daquin has been guest-editor for SETU Bilingual Journal twice. Her work has been featured in over 200 publications and she is regularly asked to write Forewords and blurbs for leading authors in the community. 

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 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: 

Rising from the Ashes. Pearl Street Press.

Shattered Reflections: An Anthology. 300 Media Group. 

Teesta Journal, a Journal of Poetry / Vol. 7. Light Issue.

Feminist Formations. Vol. 36. Issue 1. Spring 2024. John Hopkins University Press.

Yay! All Queer. Inkd Publishing. Ed. Mandy Burkhead.

The Beauty in Darkness: A literary tribute to T. S. Woolard, Dark Moon Rising Publications. Ed. Casey Hill and Rob Tannahill

CITYSCAPES: An Anthology of Poetry, TDW Productions & Press. Ed. Dr. Roopali Sircar Gaur and Anita Joseph

Aquality: tales from the depths, Ed. Geetha Nair & Vineetha Mekkoth. Folio

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:  

North of Autumn, a novel, Patrick Gillespie (Raw Earth Ink)

Penning Paper Moths, Trisha Leigh Shufelt (Ophelia's Pen Press)

Language of the Wound is Love, Megha Sood (FlowerSong Press)

The QueerInk Writer's Guidebook, Shobhna S. Kumar (Queer Ink) 

Start a Religion, Stay out of Jail, Logan Medland (Raw Earth Ink)

Full Throated Stirrings, Dr. Archana Zutshi (Evincpub Publishing)

Defy Definitions: Celebrating Extraordinary Journeys of Underrepresented Lives. Dr. Khusi Pattanayak & Candice Daquin (Black Eagle Books)

Co-edited with Gayatri Majumdar, Curiosity Saves the Thinker, Nitya Swaruba, (self published)

More Animal Than Human, Mary Rogers (Indie Blu(e) Publishing) 

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 (to be published by FlowerSong Press, 2025)