Daniel Polansky is the author of the critically-acclaimed LOW TOWN trilogy (Tarantino meets Tolkien), winner of the Prix Imaginales; THE BUILDERS (Redwall meets The Magnificent Seven), a Hugo Award finalist; TOMORROW'S CHILDREN (The Warriors meets Gangs of New York); MARCH'S END (Narnia for adults), and more.
His latest book is THE SOFT TOUCH - a new Low Town story.
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.