Daniel Griffin is the author of the collection of stories Stopping for Strangers and the novel Two Roads Home. He was born in Kingston, Ontario, and has lived in Canada, the United States, Mexico, the UK, France, New Zealand, India and Guatemala where he met his wife Kimberly Longenecker. He attended Queen’s University and received an MFA from UBC. He and his wife live in Victoria, BC, with their three children, a cat and a recently adopted dog from the family’s time in southern Mexico.