Dayna was born in Houston, Texas in 1984 and was raised in Janesville, Wisconsin. In her early teens and throughout her adolescence, she began moving around a lot, not really having too consistent of a stable life. She currently resides in Pasadena, Texas with her husband and daughter. Her favorite music has always been rock, Aerosmith being her favorite band. Her favorite genre of movies is horror. She absolutely loves being scared. But all the while, she completely hated the idea of having to sit and read anything for any length of time. When she was about 11 or 12, mher brother gave her "The Outsiders" and said, "Read this." Immediately, she became addicted to the concept of writing. S.E. Hinton made her fall in love with the characters that really struck a chord with her. It was automatic the way the pages played through her mind like a movie. She reread the book probably five times, loving how she was able to relate to the feelings of the characters in so many ways. It actually inspired her to want to start writing. Starting out writing songs and poetry. It was usually in the form of a journal, or tucked away in one of those cheap, paper folders. Every emotion and experience, whether it was something that happened at home, with friends, or even a guy, she put down on paper. She would talk to her closest friends about the events that were taking place in her life. But she would always save the utmost private emotions for pen and paper. It was her outlet, an organized and secret way to be able to express her inner most self without any amount of judgment. Before she knew it, she had accumulated all of these personal thoughts and feelings. Eventually strongly started to consider putting them into book form. As soon as she had the thought, the poetic "gene" in her pretty much just dissolved. She was unable to put a sentence together that flowed or even made sense, causing her to have a permanent writers block for technique. Still, she put writing down giving up on it, feeling defeated. She had no idea where to go for inspiration or how to even go about finding a place to get some inspiration. And eventually convinced herself that maybe writing just wasn't meant to be. In being an extremely observant and sensitive individual towards the world around her, she started to examine people. Curiously, she would watch and study the way that they moved, talked, walked, their actions and reactions, their facial expressions... Now, she looks forward to writing more and thinking more. She says it can be an exhausting, brain frying experience. Sometimes it flows naturally for her, as if it were a second nature. Sometimes she has to push her mind and imagination to the furthest extents, literally stretching it beyond it's original means. But it's all passion and she looks forward to the challenge. The more challenge that an idea presents, the more she learns. It's not the finished product that she looks forward to the most. It's the experience within the writing that she craves.