After graduating from high school, he began writing poetry to court women while he was working as a dairy manager in a Finast grocery store.
[3] Schneider's other writings have been published in outlets including Monsters and Critics,[4] HackWriters,[5] BlogCritics,[6] 10,000 Monkeys, Dublin Quarterly, Culture Vulture, No Ripcord Magazine, and CriticalCritics.com.
[5] Schneider runs the website Cosmoetica, which the Dictionary of Midwestern Literature included in a list of several significant Illinois-based literary magazines outside of academia.
The Multimedia Journal of Black Studies, Ronald Bailey noted Schneider's interview with Emanuel as an "important source" on the poet.
[12] Cyril Wong praised him in the Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, writing "I think it is high time every lover of contemporary poetry reads Dan Schneider's essays on [Cosmoetica].