Danielle is a Filipina writer born and raised on the island of Kauaʻi. She is a 2019 Kundiman Mentorship Lab Fellow, 2020 Tin House Scholar, and a creative nonfiction editor at No Tokens. She writes about inheritance—of home, of hurt, and guilt—and loving in the face of inevitable ends.
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2024 Honorable Mention, Gulf Coast Prize in Creative Nonfiction
2024 The Helen Earnhart Harley Creative Writing Fellowship Award in Non-Fiction, Ohio State University
2024 The Vandewater Poetry Award, Ohio State University
2023 Finalist, New Ohio Review Fiction Contest
2021 Finalist, Epiphany Magazine Fresh Voices Fellowship
2021 Finalist, Gulf Coast Prize in Fiction
2020 Tin House Writers Workshop Scholar
2019 Creative Nonfiction Fellow, Kundiman Mentorship Lab