Dan Burt is a poet, memoirist, and former lawyer. As he recounts in "Every Wrong Direction: An Emigré's Memoir", Burt left behind a rough-and-tumble Philadelphia upbringing where he worked in the family butcher shop, got into fights, struggled to stay in line at school, and witnessed his family's own involvement with the mafia. Years later, following a career in international corporate tax law, the writer has taken to life overseas.