Dan MacPherson has worked at a Jamaican bakery; extruded aluminum for industrial ladders; professionally cut grass, washed dishes, transported poultry and delivered booze; he received a Bachelor of Image Arts in Toronto; ran international hostels; taught English in Poland; cleaned human sewage and exterminated pigeons in Australia; repaired and detected swimming pool leaks; obtained a Master's of Arts and Social Science from Linkoping University, Sweden; Dan currently lives near his childhood home in Newmarket, Ontario with his new family and only now occasionally suffers a variety of anxiety