Jim Daniels was the first Brittingham Poetry Prize winner for Placer/Everyone. His fourteen collections of poetry include Punching Out, M-80, Blue Jesus, and Night with Drive-By Shooting Stars. He lives in Pittsburgh.

"Show and Tell is a splendidly varied, rich and complex collection of poems, serious and wise, wry and often profound. Daniels's work has become both more experientially dramatic and more poetically sure of itself. The voice in the poems retains its directness, its deceptive artlessness, but the conscience of the work and the generosity which informed it from the beginning have grown still more substantial." - C. K. Williams