Dan Reilly lives in the Adirondacks where he had his first reading thanks to Mohawk poet Maurice Kenny. As a young man, he was lucky enough to attend classes by novelist Max Yeh and poet James Crenner. He has worked in films and construction, bartended, driven truck and taxi, written for a newspaper, taught in prisons, owned a business, and lived in NYC and LA. His poems and stories have appeared in Pif, Closed Eye Open, Beyond Words, Obelus Journal, The Ocotillo Review, SPLASH! of Haunted Waters Press, Flash Fiction Magazine (Honorable Mention) and most recently in Hole in the Head Review and Dreamers Magazine (Honorable Mention). He was featured on The New Guard's BANG! page. His "Dream an Emptiness" won third prize in poetry at The Chestnut Review.