Daniel Dias Callahan is a writer from Sacramento, California who still loves to read picture books. He received his Master of Fine Arts from the University of San Francisco and his Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from the University of San Diego. He currently resides in the United Kingdom.
His work has appeared in the California Quarterly, Sonora Review, and Thin Air Magazine among others. His fiction was nominated for the Best of the Net in 2025. Currently, he is working on a second poetry manuscript while trying to publish his first collection whose poems sift through ordinary moments that have become triggers of grief like conversations about the weather, watching the news, or going to the grocery store, the poems uncover regret and a childhood taken for granted, question faith, and navigate both generational memory and cultural lineage.
Drawn to the isolation that trails the American Dream, his plans for fiction include finishing a short story collection that seeks to understand how people remake themselves amid uncertainty.
He is a former teaching fellow at the University of San Francisco where he taught Introduction to Creative Writing for non-English majors. He also served as poetry editor for Invisible City. In his free time, he enjoys surfing, taking photographs, and adding books to his to-get-to pile. Some of his favorite writers include W.G. Sebald, Samantha Schweblin, and Jamel Brinkley.
Read more about Daniel on his substack. Well, eventually. He’s still working on his first post. It’s a lot of pressure… you know?
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