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Later on, she moved to Washington, D.C., where she met her future husband, Walter. The couple lived in Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania, and Illinois before retiring to South Carolina, where Danielle wrote her memoir, Sirocco.
Aside from writing and reading, Danielle likes to paint, take pictures, bowl, and hike.
Danielle is a member of the South Carolina Writers Workshop, Sisters in Crime, the National Association of Memoir Writers, and the Seneca Writers Critique Group. She won second place in the 2011 Carrie McCray Memorial Literary Awards for nonfiction and was semi-finalist in the 2011 William Faulkner Wisdom Competition for a novel-in-progress as well as for a short story. Lastly, two of her creative nonfiction stories appeared in the 2011 and 2012 Petigru Review Literary Journal.
At present Danielle is writing the first draft of Mistral, the sequel to Sirocco, which depicts the struggle that she, her family, and over a million and a half others like them faced after they fled Algeria and searched for new places to call home in France and across the globe.
You can find Danielle on the Web at www.dadahl.com.