About the Author – Dan Lawrence

Appears In:
Nightmare Fuel 2021

Dan Lawrence received his MFA from Columbia University, where he was a Graduate Fellow and Fiction Editor of Columbia Journal. After a 25-year career as a magazine editor with Time Inc. and Reed Elsevier in Manhattan, he dropped out to the rural Eastern Shore of Virginia to help his wife homeschool their three sons. On the side, he was the principal soloist for the Orchestra of the Eastern Shore and a founding member of the popular local band, Swing Project. He recently moved with his wife, their eldest son, and their golden retriever to Richmond, where he has resumed writing fiction. An excerpt from his novel Perfect Criminals is currently shortlisted for the Summer 2021 Novel Slices Contest, his novel The Quarry was shortlisted for the 2020 James River Writers Best Unpublished Novel Contest, and his story Moon River was recently published in Stories Through the Ages.