Daniel Tobin is the author of ten poetry collections, most recently Dusk, Empire: New and Selected Poems 1987-2024 (Four Way Books, 2026) and The Stone in the Air, versions from the German of Paul Celan (Salmon Poetry, 2018). He is also the author of a critical study, Passage to the Center: Imagination and the Sacred in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney, and a book of essays, Awake in America. Tobin has also edited The Book of Irish American Poetry from the Eighteenth Century to the Present, Light in the Hand: The Selected Poems of Lola Ridge (with Pimone Triplett), Poet's Work, Poet's Play: Essays on the Practice and the Art, and To The Many: Collected Early Works of Lola Ridge. Among Tobin's awards are the Massachusetts Book Award in Poetry, The Discovery/The Nation Award, The Robert Penn Warren Award, The Robert Frost Fellowship, The Katherine Bakeless Nason Prize, The Julia Ward Howe Prize, The Stephen J. Meringoff Award in Poetry, and creative writing fellowships in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. He teaches at Emerson College in Boston.