The Ardent Witness
“Reminiscent of Graham Greene and Barbara Kingsolver, The Ardent Witness digs into one young woman’s story as a way to examine some deep and troubling questions of our time. It’s a coming of age story for a post-global world.”
- Catherine Davidson, author of The Orchard and The Priest Fainted ( a New York Times Notable Book of the Year)
International Book Awards
Finalist 2019
Danielle Maisano is a novelist and journalist currently residing in London. Her debut novel, The Ardent Witness (Victorina Press, 2019), was inspired by her time as a community health worker for the U.S. Peace Corps in Togo, West Africa. The novel was a finalist for the 2019 International Book Awards fiction category.
She worked as an editor on the E-Magazine Exiled Ink from 2018 – 2024. She has written for The Real Detroit Weekly, WDET Detroit Public Radio, Diem 25 and Shado Magazine and was a contributing editor for the book Resistance: Voices of Exiled Writers (Palewell Press, 2020). She is currently working on a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of West London.