Born and raised in Orange County, California, David Dannov eventually moved to Long Beach and enrolled into the creative writing department at CSULB, studying under Gerald Locklin. He was accepted into two MFA programs but decided to drop both and focus on the writing. He does not believe the academic circle should be holding all the membership cards regarding publishing connections. He was the bass player, singer, songwriter for a band called Fossil Face that played in Long Beach for three years. His work has appeared in the Chiron Review, Bottle of Smoke, Pearl, Black Spring Press, and elsewhere. In 1999, he won the Lucid Moon Poetry Contest for a poem entitled, “There Are So Many Canyons And Valleys In The Skin Of An Orange.”