Piper J. Daniels holds a BA from Columbia College Chicago and an MFA from the University of Washington with a specialization in literary collage and hybrid texts. Her debut essay collection, Ladies Lazarus, won the Tarpaulin Sky Book Award , was longlisted for the PEN Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award For the Art of the Essay, and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Nonfiction. She is the founder of Creative Consultation Collective, a manuscript consulting service dedicated to the support and proliferation of LGBTQ/BIPOC voices.