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D. S. Lliteras
Born
Daniel Serafin Lliteras

(1949-07-13) July 13, 1949 (age 74)
New York City, U.S.
OccupationAuthor
Known forSpiritual novels

Daniel Serafin Lliteras (born July 13, 1949) is an American author best known for his spiritual novels.

Early life

Lliteras was born in the Bronx,

Workers' Compensation
.

Lliteras attended

Hospital Corpsman).[1][2][3]

Vietnam

After completing Navy

combat “V”).[1][2][3]

Education and employment

After his discharge from the Navy, Lliteras attended

William Shakespeare's style.[1][2][3]

Theater

Among his acting credits while at Florida State, Lliteras's signature achievement was starring in the title role in

playwrighting under Mark Berman, and directing under Amnon Kabatchnik. Lliteras's professional credits include directing Steambath at the Reunion Theatre in Houston, Texas in 1973 and Henrik Ibsen's Rosmersholm for the New York Theatre Ensemble in 1977.[7]

Maritime and firefighting

In 1979, Lliteras was admitted into the U. S. Merchant Marines' Calhoun MEBA Engineering School in Baltimore, Maryland and subsequently served aboard Edgar M. Queeny. In 1980, he taught at Rutledge College (now

Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek in Virginia. In 1985, he resigned his commission to become a firefighter for the city of Norfolk, graduating academically at the top of his firefighting class in 1986. He received the Medal of Honor from the Norfolk Fire and Paramedical Services in February, 1998 for exceptional action in the line of duty in the saving of life and retired in 2000 after suffering a heart attack on a fire scene.[1][2][3]

Written works

Lliteras's

counter-culture in a north Florida town.[14]

Lliteras is best known for his biblical novels,[15] which include The Thieves of Golgotha (1998),[16] Judas the Gentile (1999),[17] Jerusalem’s Rain (2003),[18] The Silence of John (2005),[19] and The Master of Secrets (2007).[20]

A book about his firefighting experiences, Flames and Smoke Visible: A Fire Fighter’s Tale, was published in 2012.[21]

In 2015, his novel entitled Viet Man was published.[22]

Personal life

In 1971, Lliteras married Kathleen Touchstone, a retired educator and author of numerous scholarly works. She dedicated her book, Then Athena Said: Unilateral Transfers and the Transformation of Objectivist Ethics, to her husband.[23]

Publications

Books

Selected poetry periodicals

  • Backyard Bamboo (East Detroit, MI) No. 2
  • Bent Nails (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) Vol. VI, No. 2
  • Brussels Sprout (Mercer Island, WA) Vo. VI, No. 3
  • Canopy (Bareilly, India)(1991) Jan-Mar, Vol. VI, Nos. 1 &2
  • Cicada (Bakersfield, CA) (1988) Vol. IV, No. 1; (1991) Vol. V, Numbers 3 and 4; (1992) Vol. VI, No. 1; (1994) Vo. VI, No. 3: (1995) Vol. VI, No. 4
  • Frogpond (Haiku Society of America, New York, NY) (1989) Nov, Vol. XII, No. 4; (1990) Nov, Vol. XIII, No. 4; (1991) Spring, Vol. XIV, No. 1; (1993) Summer, Vol. XVI, No. 1
  • Haiku Headlines (Los Angeles, CA) (1990) Mar, Vol. 2, No. 12; (1990) Nov, Vol. 3, No. 8; (1993) Mar, Vol. 5, No. 12; (1993), Apr, Vol. 6, No. 1; (1993) May, Vol. 6, No. 2; (1993) Aug, Vol. 6, No. 5 (1993) Sep Vol. 6, No. 6; (1993) Oct, Vol. 6, No. 7
  • Haiku Quarterly (Mesa, AZ) (1989) Winter, Vol. 1, No.4; (1989) Spring, Vo. 1, No. 1; (1989) Autumn, Vol., 1, No. 3; (1990/91) Winter Vol. 2, No. 4
  • Haiku Zasshi Zo (Seattle, WA) (1988) Summer/Fall; (1989) HZZ Anthology
  • Hobo Stew Review (Allston, MA) (1988) Fall
  • Hummingbird (Richland Center, WI) (1993) Mar, Vol. III, No. 2; (1993) Sep, Vol. IV, No. 1; (1994) Dec, Vol. V, No. 2
  • The Indian Writer (Madras, India) (1989)
  • Jam To-day (Tyngsboro, MA) (1988) Issue 14, (1990) Issue 15
  • Japanophile (Okemos, MI) (1995) Summer, Vol. 19, No.3
  • Ko: Haiku Magazine in English (Nagoya, Japan) (1990) Spring/Summer; (1991) Autumn/Winter; (1992) Autumn/Winter
  • Kumquat Meringue (Pine Island, MN) (2001) Issue No. 6
  • Kusamakura Haiku Collection Book (Kumamoto, Japan) (1999) January, Nyuusen (Third Prize)
  • Kusamakura Haiku Collection Book (Kumamoto, Japan) (2003) January, Nyuusen (Third Prize)
  • Mainichi Daily News (Haiku in English) (1988) Mar 6; (1988) Jul 10; (1988) Sep 18; (1988) Dec. 11; (1989) May 28; (1990) Nov 12; (1991) Apr 27; (1993) Apr 3
  • Mainichi Haiku Contest (Tokyo, Japan) (1998–99) International Section: Honorable Mention in English
  • Mirrors (Gualala, CA) (1990) Winter; (1990) Spring; (1990) Summer; (1990) Autumn; (1993) Winter; (1993) Summer; (1994) Winter; (1994) Summer
  • Modern Haiku (Madison, WI) (1989) Summer, Vol. XX, No. 2; (1989) Autumn, Vol. XX, No. 3; (1990) Winter/Spring, Vol. XXI, No. 1; (1991) Fall; Vol. XXII, No. 3
  • The New American Association of Haikuists Newsletter (Jackson, TN) (1989) Sep
  • New Cicada (Fukushima, Japan) (1988) Winter, Vol. 5, No. 2; (1988) Summer, Vol. 5, No. 1; (1989) Winter, Vol. 6, No. 2; (1990) Winter, Vol. 7, No. 2; (1990) Summer, Vo. 7, No. 1; (1992) Winter, Vol. 9, No. 2; (1993) Summer, Vol. 10, No. 1; (1997) Summer, Vol. 10, No. 2
  • The North Carolina Haiku Press (Raleigh, NC) (1990) Holiday Haiku Chapbook
  • Parnassus Literary Journal (Forest Park, GA) (1990) Fall/Winter, Vol. 14, No. 3; (1990) Summer, Vol. 14, No. 2
  • Piedmont Literary Review (Forest, VA) (1991) Vol. XV, No. 1
  • The Plover: Chidori (Okinawa, Japan) (1989) No. 1; (1990) No. 2
  • Poetry Nippon (Nagoya, Japan) (1988) No. 83, Special Summer Issue, Vol. IX, No. 3; (1989) No. 87 Special Summer Issue, Vol. IX, No. 7; (1990) No. 91, Special Summer Issue, Vol. X, No. 1; (1991) No. 95, Special Summer Issue, Vol. X, No. 5
  • The Poet's Domain (Charlottesville, VA) Livewire Press, Vols. 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22
  • Rachna (Bihar, India) (1990) Winter
  • The Red Pagoda (Jackson, TN) Vol. V, No. 3
  • Skylark (Aligarh, India) Issue 72
  • South by Southeast (Archer, FL) (1994) Newsletter of the Southeastern Region Haiku Society of America Feb, Vol. 1, No. 1
  • South by Southeast (Richmond, VA) Vol. 6, No. 2; Vol. 7, No. 1
  • Wide Open Magazine (Eureka, CA) (1988) Winter, Vol. IV, No. 3; (1988) Spring, Vo. IV, No. 4; (1988) Summer, Vo. V, No. 1; (1988) Fall, Vol. V, No. II, (1989) Winter, Vol. V, No. III; (1989) Spring, Vol. V, No. IV; (1989) Summer, Vol. VI, No. I; (1989) Fall, Vol. VI, No. II; (1990) Winter, Vol. VI, No. III
  • Wind Chimes (Glen Burnie, MD), Issue 21; Issue 28

Poetry anthologies

  • Four Seasons (1991), Ko Poetry Association, Japan
  • How to Haiku, A Writer's Guide to Haiku and Related Forms (2002), Bruce Ross, ed. Tuttle Publishing, p. 63
  • Journey to the Interior: American Versions of Haibun (1998), Bruce Ross, ed. Tuttle Publishing, p. 142
  • Wind Five Folded, An Anthology of English Language (1994), AHA Books, p. 13
  • World Poetry 1991 Best Poems by 342 Eminent Poets in 70 Countries, (Madras, India), p. 30

Short story anthologies and periodicals

  • Chiron Review (1995) Autumn/Winter, Issue 44-45 “Hill 452”
  • Happy 10, The Happy Organization Publisher, New York (1998) “Under the Rain”
  • In Good Company, Live Wire Press (1999) “The Cleansing Ritual”; (2000) “Big Cities Have Many Colors” (2001) “Turning Things Off”; (2002) “An Abstract Heretic”; (2005) “In a Dream”; (2008) “The Theatre”; (2009) “The Left Ascension” and “Monkey Man”; (2010) “The Horseshoe Crab”
  • Ruehlmann, Bill (2001). “As This Book Tells All of Us, We’re a Collection of Stories [In Good Company (2000)]” The Virginian-Pilot, Aug. 26.
  • Vietnam War Generation Journal (2001) Dec, Vol. 1, No. 3 “Half Brothers”
  • Vietnam War Generation Journal (2002) Dec, Vol. 2, No. 2 “Angels in Repose: Chapter 1-Chapter 7”
  • Vietnam War Generation Journal (2003) Apr, Vol. 2, No. 3-4 “Angels in Repose: Chapter 8-Chapter 9”

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