Daniel Barnum's poems and essays appear in or are forthcoming from Hunger Mountain, Bat City Review, Salamander, The Iowa Review, Muzzle, and elsewhere. Their debut chapbook, Names for Animals, was the 2020 selection for Seven Kitchen Press's Robin Becker Prize, and won the 2022 Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize from the New England Poetry Club. They live in Philadelphia, where they teach English and Swedish.