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Technology Leader, San Francisco Bay Area

Daniel Marcus has published around twenty short stories in literary and genre venues, including Witness, Asimov’s Science Fiction, Realms of Fantasy, ZYZZYVA, and Fantasy and Science Fiction. Some of these stories have been collected in Binding Energy (Elastic Press, 2008).   He is the author of two novels: Burn Rate (Apodis Publishing, 2009), and A Crack In Everything (Apodis Publishing, to appear Spring 2010).

Daniel was a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.  His non-fiction has appeared in Wired, Boing-Boing, the San Francisco Chronicle, and elsewhere, he has taught in the creative writing program at U.C. Berkeley Extension and is currently a member of the online faculty at Gotham Writers' Workshop. He is a graduate of the Clarion West Writers’ Workshop.

After a spectacularly unsuccessful career attempt as a saxophonist, Daniel earned a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from U.C. Berkeley, has worked as an applied mathematician at the Lawrence Livermore Lab, the Lawrence Berkeley Lab, and Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study, and has authored more than twenty articles in the applied mathematics and computational physics literature. Currently a technology executive for a digital multimedia  firm, Daniel lives in Berkeley, California.