Danielle Binks is a Melbourne-based writer and literary agent with Jacinta di Mase Management. In 2017, she edited and contributed to Begin, End, Begin, an anthology of new Australian young adult writing inspired by the #LoveOzYA movement, which won the ABIA Book of the Year for Older Children (Ages 13+). The Year the Maps Changed, Danielle’s debut middle-grade novel, was a 2021 Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Notable Book, and is forthcoming in North America with Quill Tree Books.

Her first solo YA novel The Monster of Her Age, was released in 2021. Danielle is also teaching the ‘Writing Stream‘ for the Associate Degree of Professional Writing and Editing at RMIT University.