Daniel Polansky is a writer and reader resolutely drawn to the margins and the dark corners.

He has had 11 novels published with major houses, and his essays and reportage have appeared in LA Times, LA Review of Books and Foreign Policy, among others.

He has also traveled to 75 countries, and worked as a suicide prevention counsellor, an outreach worker to the unhoused, a line cook and a baker. Working in a bakery is the hardest thing he’s ever done.