Daniel Maid­man is a writer and artist liv­ing in Brook­lyn. His lit­er­ary and art crit­i­cism has been pub­lished in, among oth­ers, The Huff­in­g­ton Post, Crit­i­cal Flame, and MAKE. His art is includ­ed in the per­ma­nent col­lec­tions of the Library of Con­gress, the New Britain Muse­um of Amer­i­can Art, and the Long Beach Muse­um of Art.