Daniel Gutstein works at the Maryland Institute College of Art (aka MICA) in Baltimore, where he runs the writing studio and learning resource center. A collection of short/short fiction, non/fiction, is forthcoming from Edge Books in Spring 2010. Poems and stories have appeared or will appear in more than 60 publications, including TriQuarterly, New Orleans Review, Ploughshares, Barrow Street, Denver Quarterly, The Literary Review, American Scholar, Prairie Schooner, Seneca Review, Quarter After Eight, Third Coast, Poet Lore, Fiction, StoryQuarterly, Other Voices, Bellevue Literary Review, The Penguin Book of the Sonnet, and Best American Poetry (2006) as well as aboard metrobuses in Northern Virginia. He has received grants and awards from the Maryland State Arts Council, Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County (Md.), University of Michigan, and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and other organizations. He has also worked as an editor-in-chief, international economist, farm hand, tae kwon do instructor, reporter, theatre arts educator, and learning specialist, and has taught more than four-dozen courses in literature, composition, and creative writing.