More than 100 of Dan's short stories, essays, and articles have appeared in anthologies, literary journals and newspapers such as The Forward, Jewish Currents,  Response: A Contemporary Jewish Review, The Greensboro Review, The Florida Review, FOUND TRIBE, and M2M: NEW LITERARY FICTION.  He currently writes an author-interview column, "Talking Across the Table," for www.BiblioBuffet.com.

Dan's translation of the Russian-Israeli bestselling novel, HERE COMES THE MESSIAH! by Dina Rubina, appeared in 2000, and his short translations from Russian and Spanish have been published in Toronto Slavic Quarterly, Beacons, Translation, and elsewhere.  Dan's novel, THE LIMITS OF PLEASURE (2001), was a Finalist for one of ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Awards.  Also, Dan compiled and edited WITH SIGNS AND WONDERS: AN INTERNATIONAL ANTHOLOGY OF JEWISH FABULIST FICTION (2001).

Dan currently teaches creative writing workshops online and in-person for the UCLA Extension Writers' Program, which awarded him the 2006 Outstanding Instructor Award in Online Writing Education.  Dan also teaches creative writing for UCSB Extension in Santa Barbara, and taught for eight years at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education, in Massachusetts.

Dan is one of the authors profiled in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature. In 2003, Dan won First Place in a writing competition sponsored by the John E. Profant Foundation for the Arts, and in 2006, he won Second Place in this competition.  In 1999, Dan received a Massachusetts Cultural Council Professional Development Grant.

 

He's read publicly from his work and lectured at conferences, universities, synagogues and Jewish community centers around the country, and holds degrees from Princeton University (A.B.), Harvard Law School (J.D.), and Vermont College (M.F.A.).