Daniel M. Clark

Daniel M. Clark was born in 1975 in Rhode Island, the biggest smallest state. A reluctant reader at first, he fell in love with books at 12 thanks to Dragonlance and Timothy Zahn’s Heir to the Empire. Writing wasn’t on his radar until his twenties when he wrote a novel—longhand in a Denny’s. It was terrible. He set long-form fiction aside, but the storytelling spark remained.

A lifelong gamer and puzzle enthusiast, Daniel has always loved cracking codes, solving brainteasers, and tackling word problems. He earned a Game Design & Development degree in 2003, with world-building and narrative design as his core strengths. He later published three non-fiction books and spent years honing his storytelling through short stories. At 44, he returned to school for a degree in English & Creative Writing, balancing writing, reading, gaming, and, of course, puzzles. He lives in the Houston suburbs with one wonderful wife, two great kids, and three indifferent cats.