Seduced by the book mobile at an early age, Daniel Mitchell grew up in a family composed equally of outdoorsmen and teachers. He worked a variety of jobs, from lifeguard stands to loading docks, once stage managed the Oklahoma Shakespearean Festival, and spent some time in the oilfield, building pipelines and perfecting the art of properly chosen expletives.

For the last few decades, he’s been a public-school teacher of English and science in Oklahoma, Australia, and Alaska. Happily married and the father of two children as shockingly attractive and intelligent as their mother, he holds a BA in English and an MFA in Fiction.