About the author
Dan Phillips has made his life-story into poetry, fiction and memoir for almost sixty years. After receiving his MA from San Francisco State University in 1965, he taught English in the junior college and as a poet-teacher with California Poets in the Schools and Santa Cruz's SPECTRA program in the public schools of Northern and Central California. His publishing credits include Porter Gulch Review, Montserrat Review, Monterey Poetry Review, Homestead Review, Anthology of Monterey Bay Poets '04, Coastlines: Eight Santa Cruz Poets, Second Wind, Catamaran Literary Reader, phren-Z Online Literary Magazine; a memoir, The Bali in Me, and a book of poems, Places of the Spirit. Dan has coordinated local readings at Bookshop Santa Cruz and read throughout Santa Cruz County. Married for sixty years, a father and grandfather, Dan celebrates life every day in Santa Cruz.