Books:
-- Askew, (poetry) Pince-Nez Publishing
-- Colliding With Chris, (fiction, children’s book) Hyperion Books for Children
-- San Francisco Points of View, (essays) Graphic Arts Center Publishing
-- Generous Misgivings, (poetry chapbook) Studio 301
-- A Child’s California, (non-fiction, children’s book) WestWinds Press
-- France, (essays) Graphic Arts Center Publishing
-- Rave, (poetry chapbook, with two other poets) Back Alley Press
Articles:
-- Los Angeles Times Magazine, (featured essays)
-- N. P. R. (commentaries/essays); Morning Edition and All Things Considered,
-- San Francisco Chronicle, (features and articles)
-- Saveur Magazine, San Francisco Review of Books, (a) (the journal of Lacanian philosophy), Connotations: A Journal of Critical Debate, The California Report (PBS) and numerous others…
Plays:
-- Productions of plays and monologues have been performed at, among other theaters, The Marsh, Throckmorton, SF Actors’ Theater, and Bannam Place Theater (San Francisco), La MAMA ETC and Abingdon Theater Co. (NYC), Gallery Players(McMinnville, OR), The Western Stage (Salinas, CA), Company One (Hartford, Conn.)
Poetry:
-- Journals and magazines including Peregrine, Sierra Magazine, The Birmingham Review, The Nottingham Quarterly, Poetry USA, Folio, Witness, Amherst Review, Runes, etc. and five anthologies including The Arvon Anthology (Arvon Foundation and London Times), Scream When You Burn (Incommunicado Press), Stories From Where We Live ¾ California Coast (Milkweed Editions), Cloud View Poets, (Arctos Press)
Screenplays:
-- Original screenplay, Oranges, optioned by H Squared (Devorah Cutler, Los Angeles) and award-winning adventure documentary, le Grand Defi (in English, The Challenge) aired on ESPN and Eurovision
Awards:
-- Bay Area Playwrights Festival “finalist” (2003); Arvon Poetry Contest (London, 1988) judged by Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney; “Children’s Choice Booklist” of the Children’s Book Council (1999); Colliding With Chris, a Rhythmical Tale premiered by the Halle Symphony, Kent Nagano conducting (England) and first U. S. performance with the North Carolina Symphony (filmed and aired on PBS in 2001); etc.
Reviews:
-- Chicago Tribune, Publisher’s Weekly, San Francisco Chronicle, Daily Alabama, Kirkus Review, Georgia Journal Constitution, San Francisco Weekly, London Times,
School Library Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Bay Guardian, etc.
Etcetras:
-- Dan has worked as a cowboy in California, driven lumber trucks in Oregon, owned a successful restaurant in San Francisco, lived and worked in France for three years, was co-host “Mr. Bobby” of a cable TV comedy show for two years, has raced cars and sailboats, taught skiing in Switzerland, and continues to sculpt strange shapes and play congas with various jazz bands. Currently, Dan teaches English and philosophy at the International High School where, for six years, he was Director of Admissions. A graduate of U. C. Berkeley, he lives with his wife and two sons in San Francisco.
