Mary-Alice Daniel was born in Nigeria and raised in Reading, England, and Nashville, Tennessee. She received her MFA from the University of Michigan. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The American Poetry Review, New England Review, Mid-American Review, PANK, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and other journals. She enters USC’s PhD Program in Literature and Creative Writing as an Annenberg Fellow and is excited to make Los Angeles her home for the second time.