Dan Szczesny is a long-time journalist, author and speaker living in New Hampshire.
He’s written several books of travel memoir (The Adventures of Buffalo and Tough Cookie, Mosquito Rain), fiction (Sing and Other Stories) and poetry (Invincible One, Poems).
His book, The Nepal Chronicles, about a month long trek to Everest Base Camp and marriage in Kathmandu, won the 2016 New Hampshire state library award for Outstanding Work of Non-Fiction.
Dan is also the Editor of Murder Ink, a series of New England-based Pulp Fiction anthologies set in or around the newsroom.
His newest book, U & Me: Reflections from the Fatherhood Frontier, is a collection of essays exploring parenting and fatherhood.
You & Me: Reflections on Becoming Your Dad consists of fifty brief essays ruminating on the first five years of Uma's life. Dan writes not only of the big moments, like leaving the hospital, first steps, losing teeth, but also of everything in between - strolling downtown on lazy afternoons, dressing paper dolls, and constructing caves from laundry baskets
MOSQUITO RAIN is a story of discovery as travel writer Dan Szczesny (THE NEPAL CHRONICLES and THE ADVENTURES OF BUFFALO AND TOUGH COOKIE) searches Alaska for the true meaning of its nickname: The Last Frontier. From Anchorage to Denali to Fairbanks to Valdez. From the Arctic Circle to Delta Junction. From glaciers to pipelines to the ferry through Prince Edward Sound.
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Fiction. Volume I of the Hobblebush Granite State Short Story Series. SING, AND OTHER SHORT STORIES is a collection of ten tales from travel and adventure writer Dan Szczesny. It is his first collection of short stories.
"Informative, funny, and full of fascinating characters . . . Dan Szczesny bushwhacks a fresh, new, wonder-filled trail. From the foreword by Rebecca Rule