Daniel Trout is a native Virginian born in 1952 with family roots not only in Virginia, but also in the mountains of western North Carolina and the coalfields of eastern Kentucky. He has worked as a graphic arts designer and illustrator (non SF-F, variously full time, part time and freelance since 1971) for two design studios  and several other business concerns.  Two years of his military service were as an illustrator in the Office Chief of Staff, U.S. Army.  He has loved and created SF/Fantasy art since he was a kid.

In 1978 and 1980 he received Associate Degrees in Fine Art and Commercial Art Illustration, both summa cum laude.  Lots of independent study afterwards.  Since 1978 he has shown artworks and won awards in open and juried fine art exhibitions; since 1995 has he shown art and won numerous awards in many SF convention art shows.  He has created cover and/or interior art for such publications as The Ballad of Kansas McGriff  by Bud Webster, and periodicals like Absolute Magnitude (DNA) , Mythic Delirium (DNA), as well as Dark Regions/Horror, Dream Engine, and The ASFA Quarterly.  His poetry has been published in DNA’s Dreams of Decadence and Mike Allen’s Mythic Delirium.

We are told he currently lives in the state of chronic paranoia, barricaded at the end of a lonely gravel road somewhere in rural Virginia, along with his lovely wife Patricia and two cats named Delusional and Episode.