About me
Daniel was raised in a blue collar
family with a father who was a tire worker in Akron, Ohio. His mother stayed home to take care of the
family. They lived in a two bedroom home and he shared a bedroom with his older
sister. His father wanted him to become
a great baseball player, so Daniel was on the field most summers. He saw there
was a story in every ball game. When the baseball career faded away, he
embarked on a college career in secondary education, with a major in social
studies. After graduation, he became a
teacher. Then went on to get a degree in
guidance and counseling. Now the
emotions were really showing up in his life.
Everybody had a story to tell and they all needed to tell their story to
somebody. He learned to be a good listener.
He used writing as a way to pour out his thoughts and emotions from his
daily experiences with students and families.
Daniel was fortunate to meet his
wife, Nancy, who was also a teacher.
They enjoyed some years of travel across the US and Canada during their
summer breaks. Soon they welcomed four
children into their family and were busy raising their own family when they
were struck by the medical emergency of Daniel’s ruptured cerebral
aneurysm. Daniel was quite lucky to
survive but it eventually became evident that he had to retire from his
position as an educator. But on the
bright side, this gave him more time to work on his poetry, then flash fiction
and then entire books. He actively
sought publication opportunities and found a following for his writing. He is
proud of his many accomplishments in writing, but mostly thrilled with the
success of his adult children in their own careers. He is also the proud grandfather of seven
more little ones.
Daniel Gallik has been writing
poetry his whole life, as a way to express his emotions. He is the kind of a person that laughs, gets
mad and gets sad. What began as a hobby,
has now brought him publishing acclaim.
His poems were well-received and many were accepted in literary journals
and online publications. Because the
poems were shorter with good descriptive language, he began to extend his
writing into flash fiction. After he suffered a ruptured cerebral aneurysm in
1993, he had to relearn how to speak, read and write the English language. In that process, he started to extend his
poems into short stories and eventually full length novels. He gained new a respect for his ability to
understand people and emotions and life in general. Now he has written several
books and four of them have been published.