Dan Chiasson was born in Burlington, Vermont, on May 9, 1971. He received his BA at Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts, where he double majored in English and classics. He received his PhD in postwar American poetry at Harvard University. Chiasson has authored five books of poetry: The Math Campers (Alfred A. Knopf, 2020); Bicentennial (Alfred A. Knopf, 2014); Where’s the Moon, There’s the Moon (Alfred A. Knopf, 2010);  Natural History (Alfred A. Knopf, 2007); and The Afterlife of Objects (University of Chicago Press, 2002). A widely published literary critic, Chiasson was the poetry editor of The Paris Review and is a regular contributor to The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books. In 2007, he published his critical work One Kind of Everything (University of Chicago Press). He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers Award and teaches at Wellesley College. He lives in Sherborn, Massachusetts. Source