Danielle Maisano is a novelist and doctoral researcher based in London. Her debut novel, The Ardent Witness (Victorina Press, 2019), inspired by her time as a Peace Corps community health worker in Togo, West Africa, was a finalist for the 2019 International Book Awards. She is currently completing a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of West London, where her research brings together literary fiction and critical theory to examine neoliberalism, feminist frameworks and political resistance.

Maisano holds a BA in Journalism from Wayne State University and an MA in International Relations and Diplomacy from SOAS. She has written for The Real Detroit Weekly, WDET Detroit Public Radio, DiEM25 and Shado Magazine, worked as an editor for Exiled Ink, and contributed to the anthology Resistance: Voices of Exiled Writers (Palewell Press, 2020).