BIOGRAPHY:

Daniel, a registered Delaware Indian, was born in 1952 and grew up on a farm on the Six Nations lands located on the Grand River near Brantford, Ontario. He holds an Honours B.A. from York University and a M. F. A. from the University of British Columbia. For Coyote City, Daniel was a finalist nominated for the 1991 Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama.

In early 2004, Daniel accepted invitations to the 2004 Adelaide Festival Writers Week in South Australia and the Neva Book Forum in St. Petersburgh in the Russian Republic. He was Poet in Residence for Myty, Ktere Nas Spojuji/ Myths That Unite Us, the Prague-Toronto-Manitoulin Island Theatre Project with productions in Prague Czechoslovakia and Toronto, Manitoulin Island and Montreal Canada.

Currently, he teaches at Queen’s University Drama Department in Kingston, Ontario and pursues independent writing projects.

Education
Master of Fine Arts (Creative Writing), University of British Columbia 1975-77.
Honours Bachelor of Arts (General Fine Arts), York University 1971-75