Daniel Halpern

Daniel Halpern is the author of nine collections of poetry, most recently Something Shining (Knopf, 1999). He was the editor of the international literary magazine Antaeus, which he founded in Tangier with Paul Bowles, and publisher of Ecco. He has received numerous grants and awards, including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as the first Editor’s Award given by Poets and Writers and the Maxwell Perkins Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Field of Fiction. He taught in the Columbia MFA program, which he chaired for many years. In 1978, with James Michener, foundedthe National Poetry Series. He is now an executive editor at Knopf.