David Baker is author of thirteen books of poetry, most recently "Whale Fall" (W. W. Norton, 2022), "Swift: New and Selected Poems" (W. W. Norton, 2019), "Scavenger Loop" (Norton, 2015), "Never-Ending Birds" (Norton, 2009), which won the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize in 2011, and "Midwest Eclogue" (Norton, 2005). His six books of prose include "Seek After: Essays on Modern Lyric Poets" (SFA University Press, 2018), "Show Me Your Environment: Essays on Poetry, Poets, and Poems" (Michigan, 2014) and, with Ann Townsend, "Radiant Lyre: Essays on Lyric Poetry" (Graywolf, 2007). Among his awards are prizes and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Mellon Foundation, and Society of Midland Authors. He holds the Thomas B. Fordham Chair at Denison University, in Granville, Ohio, and is Poetry Editor of "The Kenyon Review."