Dan Elish co-wrote the book to the Broadway musical 13 which has been performed all over the world and is now a movie on Netflix. He is also the book writer and co-lyricist to Off Broadway’s The Evolution of Mann as well as the author of twelve novels for readers of all ages, including The Worldwide Dessert Contest (Bantam), Nine Wives (St. Martins), and Born Too Short (S&S) which won an International Reading Association Students’ Choice Award for young adult literature. Dan has also written for television, notably PBS’s Cyberchase and received numerous fellowships from the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences. He was a member of the BMI songwriting workshop. Dan lives in New York City with his wife and two children.