Jim Daniels

A native of Detroit, Michigan, poet and writer Jim Daniels lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His books include The Luck of the Fall (Michigan State University Press, 2023), The Human Engine at Dawn, (Wolfson Press, 2022), Gun/Shy (Wayne State University Press, 2021), and Rowing Inland (Wayne State University Press, 2017). With M. L. Liebler, he coedited the anthology RESPECT: The Poetry of Detroit Music (Michigan State University Press, 2020).

Daniels has received support from two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and two fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. His books have won four Michigan Notable Book Awards, the Brittingham Prize for Poetry, the Blue Lynx Prize for Poetry, the Tillie Olsen Creative Writing Award, the Milton Kessler Award, and three Gold Medals in the Independent Publisher Book Awards, among other honors, and his films have won awards in film festivals around the world. His work has been published in The Best American Poetry and in Pushcart Prize volumes.

He is the Thomas Stockham Baker University Professor of English Emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University and teaches in the Alma College low-residency MFA program.