Dan Yonah Johnson is from Ohio, and he’s been a schoolteacher, social worker, and antiques dealer. Ohio writers Sherwood Anderson and Dawn Powell are Dan Yonah’s literary role models. He has lived in the childhood towns of both authors—where no one remembers them. Dan Yonah has three novels: The Bread House, Date of Birth Unknown, and The Strata of Silence. And he’s published short stories in Literary Yard, Northwest Indiana Literary Journal, and CC&D Magazine.