Daniel Genis

His writings have appeared in Gothamist, Süddeutsche Zeitung, The Daily Beast, Moscow Times, Vice, Paris Review, Washington Post, New York Daily News, Thrillist, Deadspin, The Fix, Testosterone Nation, Chicago Tribune, Minneapolis Star, and The Guardian online. Genis wrote an article for Vice entitled, "New York State's Scariest Prison", concerning the escapees at Clinton Correctional Facility in June 2015. Genis also appeared on NBC Universal's Deadline in June 2015 to discuss Clinton's escape, CNN's Newday (regarding Joyce Mitchell) and was quoted by The Buffalo News in its article "Escaping prison, surviving the wild: the journey of Matt and Sweat". His appearance on Burl Barer's Outlaw Radio show necessitated a second interview. Genis became a contributor to the museum/art work that is Joe Coleman's '"Odditorium by offering a seven-inch pony tail he grew over seven years of incarceration. It was inducted in a ceremony and placed on a shelf with Wild Bill Carlisle's Stetson hat.

Genis published his fifth article in Newsweek in 2015, continuing to explore his interest in Chinese art. He profiled the gallery owner who is integral to the evolution in this art movement's reputation in "Eli Klein on Riding the Wave China's Contemporary Art Scene" for Klein Sun Gallery in Chelsea, New York. Previously, Genis has written extensively on the celebrated Chinese artist Zhang Dali. Genis's publication, entitled "A Gentleman's Guide to Sex in Prison", was listed in the "30 Great Articles and Essays about Sex" and has been viewed over 850,000 times. Genis reviewed the art opening Michael Alig had in three galleries in one night. Manager Kirsten Bowen and the Woolly Mammoth Theatre reference Genis's article in their show, Lights Rise on Grace. which explores themes of incarceration.

In the summer of 2015, Genis had two magazine debuts. His viral article on cooking in prison, published by the Thrillist Media Group, was selected for inclusion in The Week. The article was also paraphrased in Esquire His feature on the unlikely winners of war with abstract opponents put Genis on the cover of Fräulein Intersections Magazin Numéro Homme in Berlin.

Genis has also collaborated with fellow drug addict and convict Michael Alig. In a 2014 interview with Genis, after being released on parole, Alig said that his time spent reading while in solitary inspired him to write his memoirs, which he titled Aligula, and he particularly identified with the character Raskolnikov from Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment.

After his release from prison, Genis was selected for representation by the Mary Evans literary agency. He sold his forthcoming memoirs, titled The Last Beat, to Penguin Books in the summer of 2014. The publication discusses the 1,046 books he read during his incarceration.

Genis was voted Employee of the Month by Vice Magazine in September 2014. He also received Rookie of the Year award by Deadspin and was nominated for Deadspin's Hall of Fame in 2014. With the help of Burl Barer and Daniel Simone, he is currently developing a project with the famed Serbian-American criminal authority Pavle Stanimirović.

During one week in 2003, Genis committed five robberies. In November of the same year he was identified by one of his victims, arrested, and eventually convicted of five counts of armed robbery, for which he served 10 years in prison.

In June 2003, five months before his arrest, Genis married Petra Szabo, a photographer and instructor of Vinyāsa and Forrest yoga. Since Genis's release from prison, he and Szabo have lived in Brooklyn, New York.

After graduating from NYU, Genis worked for Nancy Love as an agent-associate. This literary agency was on the Upper East Side; Genis's role entailed finding new authors to represent, although his literary interests did not match his employer's taste for self-help books. Genis and Nancy Love parted ways in 2001.

In 2001, Genis traded in his publishing career for a life of crime to feed a raging heroin appetite. His taste for the illegal substance (costing Genis $100 per day) led him to embark on a string of robberies in order to pay his debts. The month-long robbery spree centered around the Lower East Side, Greenwich Village, Chelsea, Gramercy Park, and the Financial District. Nicknamed the "apologetic bandit" by the press, Genis offered apologies to his victims as he took their cash and returned their wallets. His 18 robberies accounted for $700 in total.

While in college, Genis initially worked as an intern and then as editorial assistant at the publishing house Applause Books, from 1997 to 1998. His tasks entailed setting manuscripts into digital versions and, after two years, Genis ended with an editing credit on The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Film. Moreover, Genis worked in the production team for the publication of American theatre and film book editor John A. Willis's Theatre World in 1997.

Genis graduated from Stuyvesant High School (where he was a student of Frank McCourt) in 1996, along with classmates such as Harry Siegel, Jessica Valenti, and Kelly Karbacz. He continued his education at New York University, graduating with a bachelor's degree in History and French in 1999. Genis also spent one year studying at the University of Copenhagen in 1999. Genis obtained an interest during this time in antiquarian bookshops and specifically, eighteenth and nineteenth century editions of Greek and Roman classic literature.

Daniel Genis (born August 2, 1978) is a Russian-American journalist and writer.

Daniel Genis was born in New York City to Alexander and Irina Genis only a few months after their emigration from the Soviet Union, in 1977. He grew up in Washington Heights, Manhattan, NY.