Daniel Brook is a journalist whose writing has appeared in "Harper s", "Dissent", "The San Francisco Chronicle", and "The Boston Globe", among other publications. Brook was a finalist in the 2003 Livingston Awards for Young Journalists and won the 2000 "Rolling Stone" College Journalist Competition while a student at Yale. He is the author of "The Trap: Selling Out to Stay Afloat in Winner-Take-All America"." "He lives in Philadelphia.