Danielle P. Williams is a Black & CHamoru poet, creative director, strategist, copywriter, and spoken-word artist based in Los Angeles. With a foundation in music, Danielle studied Viola Performance at the South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities before earning a BA in Arts Administration from Elon University and an MFA in Poetry from George Mason University.

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Danielle's work lives at the intersection of artistic depth and commercial precision. She spent years shaping the language of brands and moving audiences at CAA Brand Consulting, working with clients such as Wilson, Starbucks, Amazon Prime, and T-Mobile. Now as a Contract Copywriter at Liquid I.V., Danielle brings the same audience-first precision to every brief, writing brand-aligned copy across digital, social, print, and advertising.

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A celebrated poet, Danielle's debut collection, Chamorrita Song, is out now from University of Arizona Press. Her chapbook, Who All Gon' Be There?, was a finalist for the Button Poetry Chapbook Contest. Danielle's work has appeared in numerous publications, including Indiana Review, The Pinch, and Gulf Coast. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee, Ninth Letter Literary Award winner, and fellow of the Palm Beach Poetry Festival and The Watering Hole.

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As a spoken-word artist, Danielle merges poetry and music, with her EPs At My Own Risk and We Fall Down, and album Danielle Paige available on streaming platforms.

 

Whether crafting a campaign or a collection, Danielle's storytelling finds the language that shifts something in the room.