Originally from England, Daniel Staniforth is a writer, composer, musician, and teacher now residing in Lafayette, CO. He has served for six years as a part-time English faculty member of the Metropolitan State College of Denver. Daniel earned a Master's degree in Literature from Miami University (of Ohio) and writes poetry, fiction and theoretical work. His first full length book is Weaver in the Sluices: Selected Poems. Poet, Will Alexander, describes it as "an intermixing of zones where the light of the waking body rises and transmixes its power with falling uranian whispers. These poems exist at the cusp where both realities overspill and condense, making fleeting forays into the unsayable." This was followed by a book of short stories called Diddle, of which Brian Evenson has said - "Diddle is packed with stories that fully articulate their premise and characters, coil like a spring, and then come to fruition when you least expect it. They have a genuine and original rhythm, one that will make you think differently about what fiction can do." Most recently he has edited and compiled an anthology of Basil King's work called Learning to Draw/A History and an anthology of Will Alexander's poetry called Kaleidoscopic Omniscience. His new book, The Groundlings of Divine Will, has been described as "a controversial, self-reflexive, ironic and humorous response to the way that Shakespeare is so often taught in contemporary academia." Some other recent publications have featured in journals such as Rogue Poetry Review, The Houston Literary Review, Bombay Gin, Monkey Puzzle, Trickhouse, and InStereo Press. As a multi-instrumentalist and composer, he writes, records, and produces alternative, classical, Folk, and experimental music (including releases by Luna Trick, Alchymical Muse, Daniel Staniforth and Rebsie Fairholm). He composed a music score for a performance of Under Milk Wood at the Cheltenham Playhouse in the UK and released a music CD version of Margaret Randall's RUINS (with Rebsie Fairholm). For more information, visit www.flowforth.com.