Dan Smith’s debut novel, The Camera Eye, is currently available through Hilliard and Harris publishers as is his second novel The Power. Dan has also had several short stories published in various literary magazines, including Epiphany Magazine and the U.K. magazine, The Crime Scene.

Dan graduated from the creative writing program at The Educational Center of The Arts in New Haven in 1986. Since then, he has seen 18 of his plays produced on various stages in Connecticut. His play, A Sparkle in The Sky, was the first runner-up in the 2001 ATHE national playwriting competition. Dan has had three short screenplays produced, and currently has one in production. His feature-length screenplay, Slip, was a 2004 Project Greenlight finalist, and a finalist for best screenplay in The 2007 International Mystery Writers' Festival. His screenplay, The Masked Man, was a finalist in the 2008 Picture Start Film Festival.

Dan lives in Connecticut with his wife and two children.