About

Daniel Duane is the author of two novels and four books of non-fiction, including the memoir Caught Inside: A Surfer’s Year on the California Coast. He hosted the Sony Music podcast Reunion: Shark Attacks in Paradise, a co-production of HyperObject Industries and Little Everywhere. Duane has written for The New York Times Magazine, Wired, GQ, Esquire, Outside, Bon Appetit, and many other publications. Duane won a 2012 National Magazine Award for an article about cooking with Chef Thomas Keller and has twice been a finalist for a James Beard Award. Duane holds a PhD in American Literature from UC Santa Cruz and has taught writing for the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference, University of California Santa Cruz, and the MFA program at San Francisco State University. He currently practices psychotherapy in San Francisco, where he lives with his wife, the writer Elizabeth Weil, and their two daughters. For Duane’s therapy website, click here: www.danielduanephd.com