Dana Lauren Goldstein was born in Louisville, Kentucky but spent most of her life traveling and living in different cities. In the summer of 2007 she received her BFA in photography from the Savannah College of Art and Design and returned to New York City where she spent a year interning and assisting fashion photographer Kenneth Cappello.

Dana currently resides in lower Manhattan where she is pursuing her personal work, a book which will be released later this year, and curating emerging local, national, and international artists and talent.