Dan Schifrin

Dan Schifrin, a writer, teacher, and curator of conversations, has taught creative writing at UC Berkeley, Stanford University, and San Francisco State.

Dan’s fiction and essays have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and McSweeneys, and he is the winner of the Wilner Award for Short Fiction from San Francisco State University, an Anne and Robert Cowan Writers Award for Jewish fiction, and Exposition Review’s Flash Fiction Award.

Dan is the author of the play “Sweet and Sour,” and the one-person show “Marie Kondo and Martin Buber Walk into a Bar.” As a LABA Fellow in the Bay Area, he has been developing a play about the influence of Kabbalistic storytelling on contemporary life.

His current projects also include a memoir about parenting through the lens of science fiction, and a book about the intersection of family, creativity, and healing, inspired in part by his work consulting with Asylum Arts on its Berkeley-based Peleh arts residency.

When he is not writing, Dan consults with companies and organizations to tell better stories, through his StoryForward framework. From 2008-2014 Dan was writer-in-residence at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco.