Daniel Jose Ruiz is an educator and writer living in Los Angeles, California. He is an unabashed geek, which pairs in interesting ways with his MFA in Creative Writing from CalArts and his MA in English from UC, Irvine. He loves to write stories about all different sorts of people, so he rarely stays to a single genre. He is honored to be a tenured professor of English at Los Angeles City College. When he is not teaching or writing, he plays a variety of tabletop games and video games, but most importantly, he focuses on being a husband to the visual artist and educator, Flavia Zuniga-West-Ruiz and a father to his children, Prometeo and Artemisia. His first novel, Coconut Versus, was published in 2017, and you can find him at DJRthelostboy.com.