DANIEL KRAUS is an award-winning author and the director of six feature films. He lives with his wife in Chicago.

Long & Tortured Biography

DANIEL KRAUS is a Chicago-based writer, editor, and filmmaker. His debut novel, The Monster Variations, was selected to New York Public Library’s “100 Best Stuff for Teens.” Fangoria called his Bram Stoker-finalist, Odyssey Award-winning second novel, Rotters, “a new horror classic.” Scowler was a Junior Library Guild selection, a YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults, and the winner of the Odyssey Award.

Upcoming novels include Trollhunters (2015), co-written with Oscar-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro; and The Death & Life of Zebulon Finch, Volumes 1 & 2 (2015, 2016).

Kraus has written regularly for such magazines as Cosmopolitan, Playboy, Maxim, and Salon.com. He is the director of six feature films, including Sheriff (2006 season premiere of PBS’s Emmy-winning “Independent Lens”) and Musician (2007 New York Times Critics’ Pick). Visit him at his website.

Francis Ford Iowa

Looking for something less serious? Try the Francis Ford Iowa project: The cheesy high-school movies of teenage DK!