Dan Burt was born in South Philadelphia, read English at St John's College, Cambridge and attended Yale Law School. A lawyer and businessman, his poetry and prose have appeared in Poetry Review, PN Review, TLS, The Financial Times, The New Statesman, The Sunday Times, Granta, Commonweal, Clutag Five Poems Series, The Forward Book of Poetry (best poems of 2013), The Poetry of Sex (Penguin Anthology), The Institute News Letter (Institute for Advanced Study), Courtauld News, and New Poetries V (2011) amongst others. Two chapbooks, Searched For Text (2008) and Certain Windows (2011) were published by Lintott/Carcanet Press, as well as a collaboration, Cold Eye, with artist Paul Hodgson (Marlborough Graphics/Lintott Press, 2010). Carcanet published We Look Like This, a collected edition of his poetry and prose, in May 2012. Notting Hill Editions published the UK edition of his memoir, You Think It Strange, in 2014, and Overlook Press the US edition in 2015. The Poetry Archive has twice recorded him reading his work. He lives and writes in London and St. John's College, Cambridge, of which he is an Honorary Fellow.