Daniel Roche received his M.A. in English, Creative Writing and M.F.A. in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. Selections from ‘The Paperwork Rebuttal’ were finalists for the Platypus Prize in Innovative Fiction, DIAGRAM Contest in Innovative Fiction, as well as included in The Anthology of the Best Innovative College Writing, filling Station Literary Magazine, and Borderline Poetry. Separately his poetry has been published in Branches Quarterly, Concrete Wolf, and Edgar Literary Review, to name a few. In addition, his stage plays have been showcased in San Francisco, California and Taichung, Taiwan. He currently teaches English and creative writing at Guangdong Peizheng College in Huadu, China.