ABOUT

David Blair grew up in Pittsburgh. He is the author of four books of poetry, Ascension Days, which was chosen by Thomas Lux for the Del Sol Poetry Prize, Arsonville, Friends with Dogs, and Barbarian Seasons. MadHat Press published his first collection of essays Walk Around: Essays about Poetry and Place in 2019. His poems have appeared in Boston Review, Ploughshares, Slate Magazine, and many other places as well, including the anthologies, Welcome to the Neighborhood: An Anthology of American Coexistence, The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Devouring the Green, and Zoland Poetry. 

He has taught at the New England Institute of Art, Bentley University, Framingham State University, the online graduate program in creative writing at Southern New Hampshire University, and in the M.FA. Writing Program at the University of New Hampshire. He lives in Somerville, Massachusetts, with his wife and daughter, and he has a degree in philosophy from Fordham University and an M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.  

Follow him on Twitter @BlairWalkAround.