David Daniel is the author of the book of poems Seven-Star Bird (Graywolf, 2003), which won the Levis Reading Prize from Virginia Commonwealth University. His poems and reviews have appeared in numerous journals, including Agni, Harvard Review, Post Road, and Witness. From 1992 to 2007, he was the poetry editor of Ploughshares. He is now the director of undergraduate creative writing at Fairleigh Dickinson University, where he is also a poetry editor for The Literary Review.