Dayna Curry Grew up just outside Nashville Tennessee. She majored in social work at Baylor University in Texas and has done humanitarian work in several countries. Such countries include Uzbekistan. Her first book was a non-fiction recount of her imprisonment in Afghanistan and release in 2001, co-written with Heather Mercer and Stacy Mattingly, called Prisoners of Hope. They are sending all proceeds from this book towards their organization, Hope Afghanistan.