[1] In childhood, she emigrated to Reading, England, and Nashville, Tennessee,[3] but returned intermittently to northern Nigeria.

[7] In March 2022, Rae Armantrout selected Daniel's Mass for Shut-Ins manuscript as the 117th winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize.

[8] Armantrout commented, “Daniel draws on animistic, Islamic, and syncretic Christian traditions from her native Nigeria to unleash potent incantations, rituals, and spells, electric as St. Elmo's fire.

The Poetry Foundation describes the collection as “eclectically rigorous poems that reverberate with a Plathian edge and ear.”[9] In November 2022, Ecco Press published A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing: A Memoir Across Three Continents.

A Cave Canem Fellow, Daniel was twice shortlisted for the Brunel University African Poetry Prize.