Candice Louisa Daquin

Candice Louisa Daquin is a certified four-license trauma psychotherapist and a well-established literary editor. She has edited many socially-urgent activist projects including: We Will Not Be Silenced (#metoo); SMITTEN This Is What Love Looks Like (lesbian award-winning poetry); The Kali Project (Indian women poets); and As The World Burns (#BlackLivesMatter). As an ardent social justice feminist, her ongoing intention is to be the change she wants to see.

Candice is Managing Editor with Lit Fox Books, in Austin Texas. Additionally she is a consultant editor with: Raw Earth Ink, and Queer Ink (supporting emerging Indian LGBTQi+ authors), and poetry editor for Tint Journal, The Pine Cone Review, Parcham Literary Magazine (India), Writers Resist, River Paw Press, and Life & Legends. She has co-judged The Northwind Writing Award for the last two years and is co-judge for The Silent River Poetry Prize as well as writing for World Literature Today, Different Truths and Borderless Journal, among others. Candice worked with Indie Blu(e) Publishing (an American feminist micro-press) as their Senior Editor for 7.5 years before the owner and Editor-in-Chief retired.

Through Tint Journal in Austria, Candice also mentors new bilingual writers writing in English, through an extensive editing and feedback program that enables writers to refine and hone their work, via a close-mentorship relationship. Her goal in any of these capacities has been to promote and highlight the necessity of diverse voices in literature, to counter biased systems of oppression. Her background teaching critical thinking at university level, has helped her be both a patient teacher and supportive editor.

As an LGBTQi+ immigrant woman of mixed-heritage, Daquin has the literal lived experience of how the ‘system’ is stacked against many people. She has lived in and been exposed to, a myriad of different cultures, enabling her through nuanced multilingualism, to work with a diverse group of writers, to successfully create powerful and polished books.

Candice is the author of several poetry collections and her debut novel, The Cruelty, is publishing Fall, 2025 (FlowerSong Press).