Dan Crawley grew up in Southern California and now lives in Phoenix, AZ. His fiction was awarded an Arizona Commission on the Arts fellowship in fiction and nominated for Best of the Web. His stories have appeared or are forthcoming in the North American Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, Emerge Literary Journal, Fiction Fix, Quarterly West, and elsewhere. He has taught fiction workshops at various colleges and universities, including Arizona State University and Northern Arizona University. He now teaches writing at Ottawa University.