Danian Darrell Jerry holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing. He is a VONA (Voices of Our Nation) Fellow, a Fiction Editor of Obsidian, and founder of Neighborhood Heroes, a youth arts program that employs comic books and speculative literature to educate emerging readers. His writing appears in Black Panther: Tales of Wakanda, Fireside Fiction, Cracking the Wire During Black Lives Matter, Curating the End of the World: Red Spring, Trouble the Waters: Tales from the Deep Blue, Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction, The Magazine of Fantasy and Fiction, Illmatic Consequences: The Clapback to Opponents of ‘Critical Race Theory,’ Captain America: The Shield of Sam Wilson, and The Map of Lost Places. Danian resides in Memphis, Tennessee, home of the blues and American soul music.