Daniel Hales is a writer, musician, artist, teacher, and salsa junkie living in western MA. He’s the author of ¿Cómo Hacer Preguntas? or, How To Make Questions: 69 Instructional Poems (Frayed Edge Press), the hybrid novel Run Story (Shape&Nature), and three poetry chapbooks: Tempo Maps, which comes with the companion CD: Miner Street Symphony (ixnay), Blind Drive (White Knuckle), and Shake My Ashes (Beard of Bees). His poems, flash fictions, and hybrid writings have been published in many print & online journals, including Verse Daily, Conduit, The Massachusetts Review, Quarter After Eight, Booth, and Bateau. In March 2017, Spork Press released Predawn to Postdusk on cassette: the debut by his psychdrone project, Umbral. His indie rock band, The Frost Heaves and Hales, has released 4 full-length albums, including: Contrariwise: Songs from Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. He’s toured nationally, playing historic venues like the Iron Horse in Northampton, MA, the basements of anarchist collectives like the ABC House, in Olympia, WA, and every kind of venue in between. Two of his songs were featured on the NPR radio show, Cartalk. He also records and performs with The Ambiguities and Selah haleS. His sensei is The Cat of Many Names.