Danniel Schoonebeek was born in the Catskills. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Tin House, Boston Review, Fence, Guernica, Kenyon Review, Denver Quarterly, Gulf Coast, Colorado Review, Crazyhorse, Verse Daily, , and elsewhere. He writes a monthly column on poetry for The American Reader, hosts the Hatchet Job reading series in Brooklyn, and works as associate editor at PEN America, where he edits the PEN Poetry Series.