About me
Dan Manzanares is an award-winning literary arts advocate and educator. He received his MFA with a concentration in genre fiction from Western Colorado University. For years, he worked on staff at Lighthouse Writers Workshop and the University of Denver’s Prison Arts Initiative, teaching creative writing to the unhoused community, as well as incarcerated students. In 2016, he won a Mayor’s Awards for Excellence in Arts & Culture and in 2021 accepted a mayoral appointment to the Denver Commission on Cultural Affairs, where he served as chair. Currently, he's a writing instructor at the American Museum of Western Art, as well as Story Quest - Map Your Novel & Map Your Memoir.
