Dan Chaon is an American author. His best-selling first novel was You Remind Me of Me (2004). His short-story collections Fitting Ends (1996) and Among the Missing (2001) were both well-received; the latter was a finalist for a National Book Award, and was also named one of the year's ten best books by the American Library Association and The New York Times. Chaon's short stories have also won the Pushcart Prize and the O. Henry Award, and have been included in the Best American Short Stories of 1996 and 2003. He was awarded the 2006 Academy Award in Literature from The American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Chaon was adopted, and grew up in Nebraska. He is married to the writer Sheila Schwartz and has two teenage sons. He lives in Cleveland Heights, Ohio and teaches creative writing at Oberlin College.