Craig Joseph Danner is a native Oregonian who earned a degree in creative writing from The Evergreen State College in 1985. He is a Physician Assistant, and has spent over ten years as a rural volunteer firefighter and emergency medical responder. A full-time novelist, he spends his non-writing time with his wife and two sons, and works on-call as a medico-legal death investigator.

His debut novel, Himalayan Dhaba, was first published in 2001, and quickly became a bookseller favorite, winning the 2002 Pacific Northwest Book Award. Twice chosen for the American Booksellers Association Booksense76 list, the novel was reissued by Dutton in 2002, and again by Plume in 2003. After falling out of print for a brief period, it has once again been reissued by the original publisher, Crispin/Hammer.

Craig Danner’s second and most recent novel, The Fires of Edgarville, is scheduled for publication in September 2009, though a limited number of advance copies will be available prior to this date from select booksellers.