David Baker

Poet and essayist David Baker was born in Bangor, Maine. He spent his childhood in Missouri and earned both a BSE and MA from Central Missouri State University before earning a PhD from the University of Utah. He has received fellowships and awards from the Poetry Society of America, the Pushcart Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation. Baker’s collections of poetry include Changeable Thunder (2001), Midwest Eclogue (2007), Never-Ending Birds (2009), Scavenger Loop (2015), Swift: New and Selected Poems (2019), and Whale Fall (Norton, 2022). (Source)