Daniel David Moses (born 1952) at Ohsweken, Ontario, and raised on a farm on the Six Nations lands along the Grand River. He is of Delaware decent. He is a poet and playwright who has an Hounours BA from York University and a MFA from the University of British Columbia. Moses was the President of Native Earth Performing Arts in Toronto, Ontario for 7 years. In 2003, Moses joined the Department of Drama at Queen's University as a Assistant Professor.

He has worked as an independent artist since 1979 as a poet, playwright, dramaturge, editor, essayist, teacher, and writer-in-residence with institutions as varied as Theatre Passe Muraille, the Banff Centre for the Arts, the University of British Columbia, the University of Western Ontario, the University of Windsor, the University of Toronto, the Sage Hill Writing Experience, McMaster University and Concordia University.

He currently lives in Toronto, Ontario.

Works

• Delicate Bodies - 1980
• The White Live - 1988
• Coyote City: A Play in Two Acts - 1990 (nominated for a Governor General's Award)
• The Dreaming Beauty - 1990 - (won 1990 Theatre Canada's National Playwrighting Competition)
• Almighty Voice and His Wife - 1992
• The Moon and Dead Indians - 1994 - (won 1994 Du Maurier One Act Playwrighting Competition)
• The Indian Medicine Shows - 1996 - (won 1996 James Buller Award for Aboriginal Theatre Excellence - Playwight of the Year)
• Big Buck City - 1998
• Brébeuf's Ghost - 2000
• Sixteen Jesuses - 2000
• City of Shadows: Necropolite! - 2000

See also: List of Canadian writers, List of Canadian poets, List of Canadian playwrights