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Candice Louisa Daquin is of Sephardi French/Egyptian descent. Born in Europe, Daquin was publishing director at the US embassy before immigrating to America to practice psychotherapy. Daquin has worked at rape crisis centers in three countries and regularly wrote for poetry periodicals Rattle and Northern Poetry Review. She is senior editor at Indie Blu(e) publishing, editorial partner with Raw Earth Ink, writer-in-residence for Borderless Journal, and editor of poetry for Pine Cone Review and Parcham Literary Magazine.