David Baker is a poet, educator, editor, and literary critic.  He was born in 1954 in Bangor, Maine, grew up in Jefferson City, Missouri, and now lives in Granville, Ohio, and Hudson, New York.  He received his B.S.E. and M.A. degrees in English from the University of Central Missouri and his Ph.D. in English from the University of Utah, where he also served from 1980-83 as Editor and Poetry Editor of Quarterly West.  In 1984 Baker began teaching at Denison University, in Granville, Ohio, where he is now Emeritus Professor of English.  He has also served frequently on the faculty of writing programs and writers’ workshops around the country and abroad, from the Hellbender Gathering of Poets, the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, the MFA program for writers at Warren Wilson College, to the Wonder Workshops at Civitella Ranieri in Italy.  For many years he was Poetry Editor of The Kenyon Review, where he also curated the long-running annual “Nature’s Nature” feature for the magazine.