David Daniel

Poet David Daniel grew up in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. He attended Vanderbilt University and the Johns Hopkins University and earned an MFA from the University of Virginia. His first collection of poetry, Seven-Star Bird (2003), won the Levis Reading Prize from Virginia Commonwealth University. His poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Connotation: An Online Artifact, and Memorious. In 2014, Daniel was awarded a poetry fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

Daniel has taught at Emerson College in Boston, where he served as editor of Ploughshares. He is the director of undergraduate creative writing at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey and founder of the words and music festival WAMFEST, an annual celebration bringing together writers, musicians, and community members.