Daniel B. Summerhill is a poet, essayist and scholar originally from Oakland, CA. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Columbia Journal, Obsidian, Inkwell, Ploughshares, AlaSKA QUARTERLY REVIEW, CAllaloo, Academy of American Poets and elsewhere. he is the winner of the 2023 1/2k prize from the indiana review and is the author of two collections of poems, Divine, Divine, Divine (Nomadic Press 2021) which was a semi-finalist for the Wheeler and Saturnalia Poetry Prizes and Mausoleum of Flowers (CavanKerry Press 2022). Summerhill has earned fellowships from Baldwin for the Arts and The Watering Hole. He is Assistant Professor of Poetry at santa clara university and is the inaugural Poet Laureate of Monterey County.