Author Description

Revised Edition: LukivPress (Victoria, BC), 2022. "Dinner for Two" appeared in The Lead Guitarist, serialized by spark* (Vancouver, BC), 2000, and in An Introductory Creative Writing Program-Monograph Two, published by Academic Exchange Extra (University of Northern Colorado: Greeley, CO), 2009, January. "Rocky Mountain-Holiday" appeared in Poetree (an American online literary journal, 2000). The author Dan Lukiv, published in 19 countries, is a poet, novelist, columnist, short story and article writer, and independent education researcher (hermeneutic phenomenology). As a creative writer, he apprenticed with Canada's Professor Robert Harlow (recipient of the George Woodcock Achievement award for an outstanding literary career), the USA's Paul Bagdon (Spur Award finalist for Best Original Paperback), and England's D. M. Thomas (recipient of the Cheltenham Prize for Literature, Orwell Prize [biography], Los Angeles Fiction Prize, and Cholmondeley award for poetry). He attended The University of British Columbia (creative writing department), the acclaimed Humber School for Writers (poetry writing program), and Writer's Digest University (novel writing program).