Born and raised in Ohio, Danielle Dayney got her start writing rock concert reviews for Toledo-based music magazine, The Glass Eye. Today, her work has appeared in the Fredericksburg Literary and Art Review, online at Huffington Post, Dead Housekeeping and The Mindful Word, and in several anthologies including the Virginia Writers Centennial Anthology, Nevertheless We Persisted, and Beach Reads: Lost and Found. She has also received awards for two creative nonfiction essays at BlogHer. Her debut memoir, When Love Sticks Around, is out now.