Dan Johnson is the NEON Communications Director. In 2002 and 2003 he was a speechwriter for former NSF Director Rita Colwell and Deputy Director Joseph Bordogna; in 2004 he wrote science research features for the Foundation’s web site. Prior to his tenure at NSF, he served as associate editor of THE FUTURIST magazine and communications director for the World Future Society in Bethesda, Maryland. His work in the DC-area literary community includes founding Window magazine and Sedwick House press, hosting the Lincoln Park Salon reading series on Capitol Hill, and serving as president of Washington Writers’ Publishing House. His work has appeared recently in Roanoke Review, Poet Lore, Delmarva Quarterly, and West Branch, and in the anthologies 31 Arlington Poets (CD, Paycock Press), Orpheus & Company (University Press of New England), and A Fine Frenzy: Contemporary Poets Respond to Shakespeare (University of Iowa Press). His latest collection of poetry is Come Looking (WWPH).