Dan Chiasson

Dan Chiasson is an American poet, critic and professor.

Life
Chiasson was born in Burlington, Vermont. He graduated from Amherst College, and received a Ph.D in English from Harvard University.

He is currently an associate professor at Wellesley College. He lives in Sudbury, Massachusetts.

His work appeared in AGNI, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, He and Meghan O'Rourke are co-poetry editors of the Paris Review. His poems have been translated into German by Jan Wagner, the selected poems have been published as "Naturgeschichte" at luxbooks, a publishing house focused on American poetry in bilingual editions.

He is on the editorial board of the literary magazine The Common, based at Amherst College.

Honors and awards

 * 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship for poetry
 * Pushcart Prize
 * 2004 Whiting Writers' Award

Criticism

 * "The Anne Winters Challenge", Slate, Nov. 29, 2004