Daniel Melnick has published two novels: The Ash Tree, about an Armenian-American family in the aftermath of the genocide, and Hungry Generations about the community of émigré musicians and intellectuals who fled Europe in the late 1930s and raised their families in Los Angeles. He has also published a study of music and modern literature, Fullness of Dissonance (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press). A short novel about Israel and the risk of a nuclear exhange with Iran A Burnt Offering is an Amazon and Kindle publication (and ends with the introductory pages of a novel about a physician - Pathological States). He was raised in Los Angeles, attended UC Berkeley, and has taught at UC Berkeley, California State University at Fresno, Cleveland State University where he is an Emeritus Professor of English, and recently retired from additional teaching at Case Western Reserve University. He lives in Cleveland, Ohio, and is married to the artist Jeanette Melnick, whose paintings are on the cover of the first three works listed above.