Daniel Kennedy grew up in Dingmans Ferry, Pennsylvania. He began wrestling at age five and attended Boston University on a wrestling and academic scholarship. He holds an MFA from Virginia Tech and PhD from the University of Houston. His writing appears or will appear in The Guardian, New England Review, The Florida Review, The Carolina Quarterly, Puerto del Sol, Sequestrum, and elsewhere. His honors include mention among the notable essays in Best American Essays, the Donald Barthelme Memorial Prize in Nonfiction, the Emily Morrison Prize in Fiction, and nominations for the Pushcart Prize. He is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Angelo State University, where he chairs the annual ASU Writers Conference. He’s currently at work on his first novel, Break.