Daniel Evans Pritchard, founder of the U35 reading series, is a writer and translator as well as the editor of The Critical Flame, an online journal of literary nonfiction, criticism, and interviews. His work has been published by Kenyon Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Harvard Review, Anomaly, Slushpile, and Missouri Review, among others. Daniel lives in Watertown with his wife and daughter. He turns 35 in 2018.