Autor/-in: Smith Danyel

Danyel Smith. is an author, award-winning journalist, and producer. She’s the creator and host the Spotify-exclusive Black Girl Songbook. , a music and talk show that centers black women in music. A 2021 Yaddo Fellow, Danyel was a senior producer and editor at ESPN, and a John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford, where she cofounded HRDCVR, an innovative hardcover culture magazine. In addition to writing for NPR, The California Sunday Magazine. , The New Yorker. , Teen Vogue. , and The New York Times. , Danyel has served as editor of Billboard. , editor at large at Time Inc. , and editor in chief of Vibe. The author of two novels—More Like Wrestling. (2003), and Bliss. (2005)—Danyel lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Elliott Wilson.