Dan Moore is a graduate of Duke University and a retired US Navy captain. He has published nonfiction in the Naval War College Review, award-winning short stories with the Midwest Writing Center; short stories and poetry in anthologies for Writers on the Avenue, and poetry in Iowa Poetry Association’s Lyrical Iowa. His submarine novel Westpac was featured on the WVIK 90.3 FM radio Scribbles. He lives with his wife in Davenport, Iowa. The Last Voyage of the Marigold is his first published novel.