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Winner 2012 NABE Pinnacle Book Award in Fan
I am a writer and educator. I teach English at East Los Angeles College and California State University, Los Angeles.
My fiction, articles, and poems appear in such publications as Easy Reader, Torrance People, Other Worlds, Wrapped In Plastic, The Gamer, Games Unplugged, and Autoduel Quarterly.
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My chapter, “The Last Days of the World”: Apocalyptic Visions in the Poetry of W.S. Merwin and William Butler Yeats," appears in the book, Reading W.S. Merwin in a New Century: American and European Perspectives, edited by Dr. Cheri Colby Langdell (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. ISBN #978-3-031-13159-2).
My poetry also appears in the anthologies Faces of Love, Tales on the Twisted Side, and The Manuscripter Volume II.
My major influences include Harlan Ellison, Ray Bradbury, Clive Barker, Stephen King, and H.P. Lovecraft.
Birth Place
Los Angeles, CA USA
Accomplishments
Other Publications:
Love Adventure, Anhthao Bui, Daniel E. Lambert; Poetry and prose collection; CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017.
Love and Other Diversions, Daniel E. Lambert; Poetry and prose collection; Lulu.com / Lulu Publishing, 2012.
Mere Anarchy, Daniel E. Lambert; Short fiction collection; AuthorHouse, 2016.
“Apocalyptic Visions: Using Current Events to Teach the Concept of Theme.” Bedford Bits Blog. 11 April 2020, Blog post.
“Deadly Breakfast.” Writing for Life: An Anthology. Nervous Ghost Press, 2020. p. 116. Poetry.
“A Heisenberg Carol.” Milestone. East Los Angeles College Literary Journal, 2021. Short fiction.
“How the Novel Fahrenheit 451 has Shaped my Composition Pedagogy.” Bedford Bits Blog. 7 March 2019, Blog post.
“The Kiosk.” Poetic Diversity. November 2014. https://www.poeticdiversity.org/main/poems-cp.php?recordID=2036&date=2014-11-01. Short fiction.
“Letters to Aunt Sophie.” The Write Stuff! August 2022. Short fiction.
“The Lost Art of the Poetry Review.” Bedford Bits Blog. 24 April 2019, Blog post.
“My Community Scientists: A Cactus Wren Odyssey.” Palos Verdes Pulse. January 30, 2021. Short fiction.
www.palosverdespulse.com/blog/2021/1/30/my-community-scientists-a-cactus-wren-odyssey-by-dan-lambert.
“My Ode to Joy.” Odes: Poets Praising People, Places & Things. Eds. Jennifer Dotson and Mary Beth Bretzlauf. Highland Park Poetry, 2022.
“Quarantine Dreams.” Spectrum 23: To Be or Not… Spectrum Publishing, 2020. p. 50. Poetry.
“’The Razor-Potato Man’: An Analysis of Harlan Ellison’s Short Story ‘He Who Grew Up Reading Sherlock Holmes.’” The Strand Magazine Blog. 23 May 2020, https://strandmag.com/the-razor-potato-man-an-analysis-of-harlan-ellisons-short-story-he-who-grew-up-reading-sherlock-holmes/. Blog post.
"’The Razor-Potato Man’: Using the Biographical Approach to Teach Literature.” Bedford Bits Blog. 6 March 2020, Blog post.
“Right of Way.” Autoduel Tales: The Fiction of Car Wars. Steve Jackson Games, Inc., 2020. pp. 154-57. Short fiction.
“What Stephen King Can Teach Us about Teaching Composition.” Bedford Bits Blog. 31 January 2018, Blog post.
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