Danielle Monique (she/they) is a Black queer nonbinary woman originally from South Texas, now living in Minneapolis. In 2018, she graduated as a first-generation college student with a B.A. in English and Africana Studies from Mount Holyoke College. She is currently an MFA candidate in the Creative Writing Program (fiction) at the University of Minnesota. She has short stories in Joyland and Malarkey Books, a forthcoming creativ nonfiction piece in Black Femme Collective, and a Pushcart-nominated prose poem in Doubleback Review. She is editor-in-chief of Stellium Literary Magazine, which centers Black queer creatives. Her work can be found at daniellemoniquewrites.com