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