Author Bio

Delicia Daniels is a poet, activist, and person who stutters. Her first publication, The Language We Cry In, was selected as the Discovery Prize winner for the 2017 Writers’ League of Texas Book Awards. Her second poetry collection, Abolition Chronicles, was selected as a finalist for the 2023 Center for African American Poetry and Poetics Book Prize, The Poetic Justice Institute Prize, and the 2025 New Southern Voices Poetry Book Prize. Derrick Austin selected Abolition Chronicles as his Runner up choice for the 2025 New Southern Voices Poetry Book Prize. Daniels is currently a Poetry editor for Fence. Her poems have been published in Callaloo, The Writer's Chronicle, Obsidian and many other literary journals.