Daniel Mosquera was born in Los Angeles, California. Spanish was his first language, and as a result, his earliest years in school were challenging. Teachers with no background in second-language acquisition checked him off as indolent and below average. High school, however, proved different. In tenth grade, reading’s transformative powers came calling. Class time was given to reading books of a student’s choice. Daniel, lost for a book to read, was led to Dalton Trumbo’s Johnny Got His Gun. The poignant narrative of a maimed soldier lured him in. Reading had hooked Daniel.

College took the love affair with reading and literature a step further - towards the writing of fiction. After completing his graduate studies, Daniel took off for Asia where he spent two decades. While there he wrote short stories and travel pieces.

Daniel won first-prize, runner-up in an annual short story competition sponsored by the Golden Key National Honor Society. His most recent short story (‘The Oatmeal Percolates’) appears in The Humanist. He is presently working on his first novel. Daniel is a member of the Independent Writers of Southern California and a graduate of UC Berkeley’s Bay Area Writing Project.