Daniel Isaiah Elder is a writer and editor based in Portland, Oregon. He is the recipient of a Lambda Literary Emerging LGBTQ Writer fellowship, as well as an Art/Lab fellowship for Jewish writers. He works as a bookseller at a small independent bookstore, and as the Navigator for Lidia Yuknavitch’s Corporeal Writing.

His essays appear in Catapult, The Rumpus, Pidgeonholes, Gertrude Press, Vol. 1 Brooklyn and many more. His fiction appears in Newtown Literary, Maudlin House, BULL, and Ghost City Review.

He lives in Portland, Oregon, with his partner and their blended family of three children, as well as one very good cat.