Daniel Hales is the author of the hybrid novel Run Story (Shape&Nature Press), the poetry collection ¿Cómo Hacer Preguntas? or How To Make Questions: 69 Instructional Poems In English (Frayed Edge), & three poetry chapbooks: Shake My Ashes (Beard of Bees), Blind Drive (White Knuckle), & Tempo Maps (Ixnay). His writing has appeared in Booth, Conduit, The Massachusetts Review, Quarter After Eight, & elsewhere. He makes music as Umbral, The Ambiguities, & Selah haleS. The most recent album by his band, The Frost Heaves & Hales, is Ghost Of A Chance To The Shadow Of A Doubt. His preferred place of worship is a kayak. His sensei is The Cat Of Many Names.¿