Natural History

Dan Chiasson (born May 9, 1971) is an American poet, critic, and professor born in Burlington, Vermont. He is the author of several acclaimed poetry collections including The Afterlife of Objects, Natural History, Bicentennial, and The Math Campers, as well as critical works like One Kind of Everything. He serves as the Lorraine Chao Wang Professor of English and Chair of the English Department at Wellesley College, contributes to The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books, and has received awards including the Whiting Writers' Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, and American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature.