Daniel Sutter

Born in Chicago, raised in Saint Louis, Daniel Sutter wrote his first story at the age of nine. It was so-so. In high school, he took to writing and acting in earnest. He studied film and theatre at Columbia College Chicago, but dropped out to attend culinary school as a very expensive bit.

To pay the bills while writing, he’s sold baseball caps to tourists, smushed bleu cheese onto salads, drove a van for a production crew, managed the FOH of a Shakespeare theatre, alphabetized college admission essays, and toured insurance companies as a software trainer.

In 2017, he successfully raised funds via Kickstarter to host a staged reading of the first two-fifths of the novel at a distillery in Seattle.

His second major work of fiction, Birk, is a memoir of the eponymous character’s inhumanly long career as a semi-famous costumed crimefighter. Daniel describes the work as, “The X-Men a la Catch-22.”