Danyel Smith

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...See more

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. See less