Caleb Daniloff grew up in 1970s Washington, D.C. – a chronic bedwetter, incorrigible finger-sucker, and compulsive sniffer. In the early '80s, the shy and nervous eleven-year-old moved to the former Soviet Union where his father was assigned Moscow bureau chief for U.S. News & World Report. Caleb attended Pioneer camp and Soviet school, shedding his American-born habits and picking up Socialist ones: smoking, binge-drinking, huffing, absenteeism, black marketeering, and a taste for ABBA and Soviet death metal. After five years, his father was jailed on bogus espionage charges and the family deported.

Caleb attended the University of Vermont and earned an MFA in Writing from Columbia University. He has been published in Guernica, Runner's World, Publishers Weekly, The Boston Globe, The Boston Phoenix, Vermont Quarterly, Middlebury Magazine, and Vermont Life. From 2003 to 2007, he was a regular commentator on Vermont Public Radio, and has contributed commentary to NPR's “All Things Considered.” Caleb was the recipient of the 2005 Ralph Nading Hill, Jr. Literary Prize and, in 2010, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He’s currently at work on a memoir about running scheduled for publication in 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. He is Senior Writer at Bostonia, Boston University's alumni magazine, and the daily news website BU Today. Caleb is represented by Wendy Sherman of Wendy Sherman Associates, Inc. He lives in Cambridge, Mass., with his wife and daughter. He no longer wets the bed.