Daniel Lee is a multidisciplinary creative and author of the novel After Death, which won First Place in the Nerdist Sci-Fi Contest and is forthcoming from Inkshares. He lives in Los Angeles, where he makes his living as a full-time editor/writer/producer for CBS/Paramount.
His work as an editor has won both Clio and Hollywood Reporter Key Art Awards, as well as multiple Golden Trailer awards and, most recently, a GEMA award for his work on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
Dan’s two-decade career began at Bunim/Murray Productions, after which he proceeded to work for and learn from some of the biggest legends in film and television advertising. Four years at Skip Chaisson's cutting edge boutique Skip Film was followed by ten at the prestigious Mark Woollen & Associates, a year-and-a-half at the late Chris Park's Project X/AV, and a year at industry institution Aspect. A brief stint at Motive was cut short by the pandemic, during which he freelanced for agencies Compadre, Helo, and Trailer Park before joining CBS.
Dan’s short fiction and poetry have appeared in The Santa Clara Review, Writing Bloc’s Escape and Family anthologies, as well as High Dive Publishing’s Horror From The High Dive Volumes 1 and 2.
He is also the writer/editor/director of the feature film Journeyman, as well as a plethora of short films, including Don't Let the Bed Bugs Bite, which was featured on IFC's MediaLab in 2005 and was invited to play as part of that year's L'Uovo di Napoli film festival in Italy.
Dan graduated from Santa Clara University in 2002 as a member of Lambda Pi Eta, the National Communication Honor Society, and was the recipient of the Justin T. McCarthy Award for excellence in oratory and personal expression.
