Dan Strawn

Dan Strawn took up creative writing after a long career in business and education.

In addition to Dan's longer works, his stories and essays have been published in a number of editions of Idaho Magazine and Trail Blazer Magazine. His short story, "Son," was a first place winner in Idaho Magazine's 2014 Short Fiction Contest. His essay, "Everyman's Smalltown" was a finalist in the University of Oregon's 2005 Northwest Perspectives Essay Contest.

He is a life member of the AT&T Pioneers.

A past member of the Board of Directors of the Nez Perce National Historic Trail Foundation, Dan has worked with the Nez Perce National Park and the Oregon State Parks as an interpreter of the Nez Perce experience.

He lives in Vancouver, Washington.

On occasion, he teaches courses for the Mature Learning division at Clark Community College in Vancouver. In 2008 he took his students to eastern Oregon and Idaho, where they experienced first hand the Nez Perce story they had been studying.

List of publications:

Issac's Gun--An American Tale, bluewood publishing ltd

Breakfast At Blair's bluewood publishing ltd

Body of Work Trafford Publishing Trafford.com

Lame Bird's Legacy bluewood publishing ltd Black Wolf's Return

(nominated by the PNWBA for a 2014 Book Award)

Nez Perce Collection bluewood publishing ltd

The Dead Possum Gang bluewood publishing ltd

The Haunting of Josef Fleischer bluewoodd publishing ltd