Daniel Marcus has published short stories in many literary and genre venues and was a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. He has taught in the creative writing programs at the U.C. Berkeley Extension and Gotham Writers' Workshop and is a graduate of the Clarion West Writers’ Workshop.

After a spectacularly unsuccessful career attempt as a saxophonist, Daniel earned a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from U.C. Berkeley, has worked as an applied mathematician at the Lawrence Livermore Lab, the Lawrence Berkeley Lab, and Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study, and has authored more than twenty articles in the applied mathematics and computational physics literature. Currently a technology executive for a digital multimedia firm, Daniel lives in Berkeley, California.