Daniel Kennedy is a writer from rural Pennsylvania. He attended Boston University on a wrestling and academic scholarship. He received his MFA from Virginia Tech, where he won the Emily Morrison Prize in Fiction, and his PhD from the University of Houston's Creative Writing Program, where he won the Inprint Donald Barthelme Memorial Prize in Nonfiction and the Provost Teaching Excellence Award. His writing has appeared in The Guardian, New England Review, The Florida Review, Appalachian Review, The Carolina Quarterly, Arts & Letters, BULL, and elsewhere; and it has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and listed among the notable essays in Best American Essays. Daniel is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Angelo State University. He’s at work on his first novel, Break.