Daniel Hales is a writer, musician, artist, teacher, and kayaker living in western MA. He’s the author of two full-length books of poetry: How To Tie & Untie Mist (Frayed Edge Press) and  ¿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 poetry, flash fiction, and hybrid writing has been published in many print & online journals, including Verse Daily, Conduit, The Massachusetts Review, Prairie Schooner, Quarter After Eight, Booth, and Bateau.

His freelance writing on kayaking, covered bridges, avant garde theater, biking, and other topics has appeared on the Franklin County Chamber of Commerce’s website and elsewhere. He wrote the script for the Franklin County Chamber’s video promoting the region.

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 and two EPs, including: Contrariwise: Songs from Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. Two Frost Heaves songs were featured on the NPR radio show, Cartalk. He also records and performs with The Ambiguities and Selah haleS. 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.

His visual art has been exhibited in several galleries. Currently, two of his collages are in the Hampden Gallery Triennial at UMass Amherst, an exhibition juried by Nick Capasso, director of the Fitchburg Art Museum.