Jim Daniels has published four books of poetry, as well as six chapbooks. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and has been awarded a Pushcart Prize. A native of Detroit, Daniels is currently a professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University, where he directs the creative writing program.

Daniels' strength lies in his ability to be simple and complex, sensuous and spiritual, social and private as he searches for 'faith.' . . . Through literate, unpretentious language, [his] lines reflect the complexities of parenting and religion.