Daniel Barnum

Daniel Barnum writes poems and essays, and translates from the Swedish. Their work has appeared in The Iowa Review, Guernica, Bat City Review, Muzzle, The Offing, and elsewhere, has been featured in the Best New Poets series, and named as notable in the Best American Essays. They have received fellowship and grant support from the Stadler Center for Poetry & Literary Arts, the Philadelphia Office of Arts, Culture, & the Creative Economy, and the Sewanee Writers' Conference. 

Names for Animals, their debut chapbook, was the 2020 recipient of Seven Kitchen Press' Robin Becker Prize, and went on to win the Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize from the New England Poetry Club in 2022. Their full-length manuscript, TRUE CRIME, has been a finalist for book prizes with YesYes Books, Barrow Street Press, and the National Poetry Series. 

A first-generation, non-traditional college student, Daniel completed their BA in English: Film & Televisual Studies at Bucknell University, and pursued coursework in Literature & Translation Studies at Uppsala University in Sweden. They hold an MFA in creative writing from the Ohio State University, where they were a Presidential Fellow. They have served in editorial roles at West Branch, The Journal, and Poetry Online. At UGA, they are a PhD student and an instructor in the First Year Writing program. In addition to creative writing, their research interests include medieval studies and art history. They were born and raised in New England, and moved to Athens after a decade in the People's Republic of Philadelphia.