Dan Burt was born in 1942 in South Philadelphia, read English at St. John's College, Cambridge, and in 1969, graduated from Yale Law School. He has practiced commercial, government, and public-interest law in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Saudi Arabia; has been a businessman; and, since 2001, is an Honorary Fellow of St. John's. Carcanet Press published his first poetry collection in 2008 and his fourth in 2019. Marlborough Graphics / Lintott Press brought out a poetry and photography collaboration with Paul Hodgson (2010), and You Think It Strange, his brief childhood memoir, appeared in the United Kingdom and the United States (2014, 2015). U.K. and U.S. newspapers, periodicals, and anthologies have featured his poetry and prose—The Financial Times, The Sunday Times, The New Statesman, Commonweal, TLS, Granta, PN Review, and Clutag Press, among others—as has the BBC and Poetry Archive. He lives and writes in London, Cambridge, and Schooner Head, Maine.
