Originally from Sterling Heights, Michigan, Danielle Maisano currently resides in London. She has a BA in journalism from Wayne State University and during her time in Detroit, she worked as a journalist in both print and broadcast.  

In 2011 she joined the United States Peace Corps where she served from 2011-2013 as a community health worker in Togo, West Africa.  Her work in Togo primarily focused on women’s health and promoting gender equity through health education. In 2013 she moved to London to pursue her MA in International Relations and Diplomacy from the School of Oriental and African Studies.

She has worked as a contributor for The Real Detroit Weekly, WDET Detroit Public Radio, The Metropolist, and Shado Magazine. She has also worked as an editor for Exiled Ink E- Magazine and as a contributing editor for the recently published anthology Resistance: Voices of Exiled Writers (Palewell Press, 2020).

Her debut novel, The Ardent Witness (Victorina Press 2019), was inspired by her time in Togo and was a finalist for the 2019 International Book Awards fiction category.

She is currently a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at the University of West London. Her research focuses on using the novel as a tool to explore how the commodification of culture under neoliberalism has impacted leftist movements from a feminist perspective.