Author Description

Dan Buck is a 49-year-old, self-described brittlediabetic and cancer patient who lives with his parentsin Armour, South Dakota. He writes for more than 100 self-published and small-press publications on a regular basis. The survivor of a couple of nervous breakdowns, Dan writes to stay sane -- driving to convenience stores to sit in his car, to drink coffee, and to write. His stories -- as short as they are powerful -- are extremely intense and insightful looksat love, codependency, despair, and hope. This Day's Wait collects almost 50 of those stories. Some of the stories in this collection have appeared previously in issues of Crap-O-Ramma, The Crawling Eye, Electric Warhol, Karma Lapel, Moongate, Short Fuse, Skywriters, Smell of Dead Fish, Timagin, Transcendent Visions, Turnip Farm, and other publications. In 1998 Dan Buck served as a judge for the Arizona State Poetry Society and was included in the International Directory of Who's Who for Poets.