Danielle is a published author and writer, born and raised in Sydney Australia.

Throughout her schooling Danielle enjoyed getting herself immersed into many books at a time. She also enjoyed writing letters to penpals in Australia and overseas.  However, English was Danielle’s weakest subject. Despite Danielle being one of the top students at spelling and grammar, she found comprehension and writing essays very difficult and didn’t pass English in her final exam. Danielle was someone who was continously bullied throughout her school life, suffered anxiety and even her teachers told her she wasn’t clever enough to do the subjects she enjoyed being physics and chemistry despite Danielle being a 3 unit maths student.

In addition, when she was around 9 years of age, Danielle was bitten on the leg by a large white alsatian as she was crossing a busy intersection with her younger sister only metres away from their home. As a result,  Danielle developed a phobia of dogs, particularly large dogs. Some time later, after moving out of home, Danielle confronted her fear of large dogs head on and eventually overcame her phobia of dogs.

Many many years later, after moving out of home, Danielle came home from work to discover her home was broken into. As a security measure, the police advised Danielle to get a dog.  Four days later,  a six year old staffordshire terrier x red cattle dog called Teida came into Danielle’s life. Danielle and Teida connected instantly and became the best of friends.
Teida inspired Danielle decided to write her life story,  and not just any life story but Teida’s life Story told by Teida herself. So after eight (8) years in the making, Teida’s Story – life through the eyes of a dog, was born and Danielle became a published author.

In addition to her published book Teida’s Story, Danielle has other pieces of writing published. A variety of short stories through  The Urban Field Naturalist , a blog post for The Association for Anthropology, Gernotology and the Life Course (AAGE) titled A Reflection on Changed Easter Traditions , December 2024 Issue of The Relentable Voice Magazine – titled “Dad’s Christmas Gift” .

Danielle is also involved with Author’s Penpals where she corresponds to primary school students within Australia encouraging them with their reading and writing. She regularly conducts Author’s talks across schools in Sydney and the Central Coast of NSW inspiring students on their life journey. Schools where Danielle has been guest speaker include Central Coast Grammar School, Oatley West Public School, St Therese’s Primary School and St Lukes Catholic Primary School .

Danielle also has been invited to be guest speaker at community organisations including local libraries, Probus and Rotary groups across Sydney – including Randwick Library, Probus Padstow, Probus Revesby, Rotary Club of Padstow.

Danielle is also involved in media engagements including radio interviews, podcast series. In April 2024 she was interviewed by SBS Australia as part of their documentary Australian Easter – Exploring social and cultural traditions beyond religion  which is available in 28 languages. In August 2024, you would have caught a glimpse of Danielle on Sunrise Weather when Sam Mac visited a newly opened child care centre in East Hills.