Daniel S. Libman

Daniel S. Libman is the winner of a Pushcart Prize for fiction as well as a Paris Review discovery Prize, now called the Plimpton Prize. He has read several of his essays on the radio, most recently his This I Believe essay, "Discomfort" on NPR's Bob Edward's show. Dan's story In the Belly of the Cat has been anthologized many times and translated into several languages, including Italian and Russian. Libman has published stories and essays in many journals and magazines including Details, Other Voices, Columbia, The Paris Review, The Baffler, Santa Monica Review, and The Chicago Reader. Winner of a writing grant from the Illinois Arts Council, Dan is currently holed up in rural Illinois with his wife, the writer Molly McNett, two kids, a dog and a cat, and chickens too numerous to count.