Danareva

I was born and partly raised in Miami and partly in West Africa. After graduating from college in Tallahassee, Florida, I escaped to Spain and spent a year teaching English to children and adults in Albacete, traveling much of Europe and hiking over 200 miles on the Camino de Santiago. 

I returned to the States for an MA in creative writing at the University of Texas at Austin. In the spring of 2011 I graduated and was awarded the Fania Kruger Fellowship in Writing and the Michael Adams Thesis Prize in Fiction.

Currently, I am working on a novel (my first). An excerpt, entitled: Spanish Guinea, 1938-1939, won the 2011 Palooka Prize in Fiction and will soon be published in the spring 2012 issue.

In February, 2012, another excerpt entitled "The Butcher's Hands" won 2nd place in the 2012 Austin Chronicle Short Story Contest.

I joined hubpages to keep the writing juices flowing, to learn from my peers and to get closer to my dream job: food and travel writer.

My hub on organic chocolate won a "Hub of the Day award" and a "HubNugget award." You can read it here.

Currently, I am a creative writing workshop instructor with Badgerdog Literary, Inc. and an eBook converter for Prufrock Press Inc. I am also a freelance writer/editor.

Please send me your comments! I love to respond!