Don Daglow is the Emmy® Award winning creator of Neverwinter Nights™, which ran for six years on AOL. His novel The Fog Seller has won multiple major independent book awards for fiction, and his non-fiction From Dream to Delivery books are also multiple award-winners.

He is a past winner of the National Endowment for the Arts "New Voices" playwriting competition, and his work has appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction under its legendary editor Edward L. Ferman. 

Don studied writing and theatre under Dr. Steven C. Young at Pomona College, where he received his B.A. in English (Playwriting). He later earned his M.Ed. from Claremont Graduate University, where he became an adjunct instructor upon graduation, and taught Social Studies, English and Theatre as a bilingual teacher at a public middle school in Southern California. During summers he ran a theatre program for grades 3 through 9.

Daglow credits Dr. Young with "turning me from a kid who loved to write into a Writer who still loved being a kid." With experience at the Royal Shakespeare Festival in Stratford-upon-Avon, Dr. Young nevertheless emphasized that "theatre is wherever you make it." After he retired from teaching he would visit local schools in Washington state with a portable stage and give kids the chance to experience all sides of theatre. He passed away in 2014, but remains a daily active influence on Daglow and his writing.

While studying under Dr. Young at Pomona College, Don started writing text-based interactive games on the colleges' mainframe computer. This in turn led to his long career in the video games industry. In addition to the Emmy® Award, his game and business honors include being placed on the Wall of Fame at the Computerspielemuseum in Berlin, being inducted into the Hall of Fame at Games Rome in Italy, multiple Game of the Year honors, three listings on the Prestigious Inc. 500™ list, and the 2003 CGE Award for "groundbreaking achievements that shaped the Video Game Industry."

He's also held unusual short-term jobs, like County Fair Security Guard, Adult School Spanish Teacher, Royal Playwright for Her Majesty's Puppet Theatres at the original Renaissance Faire with artist extraordinaire Jo Jazuk, and Spear Carrier at the Marin Shakespeare Festival under legendary directors Ann and John Brebner, who hosted the first reading of the original script for Star Wars.

Don lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife Marta, and continues to work in the games industry as well as writing fiction and non-fiction. They have two adult sons and four grandchildren.