Daniel Stephen Goldsmith was born in 1971 and lived in Yucca Valley California until he graduated from high school in 1989. The first 10 of the 18 sections of poetry in Volume I were written in this wasteland of beautiful sunrises and pure sunsets. The Wanderer then traded these endless vistas for the lush redwood forests over looking the Pacific Ocean where it crashed against the cliffs of Santa Cruz. He now lives in Rockville Maryland with his inspiring son Evan.