Featuring Youth Poet Laureate Winners Sofia Sanchez and Maiya Brock. Known for his blend of dark humor, colloquial language, and explosive metaphor, McDaniel has been featured in The New Yorker, New York Times, Ploughshares and Best American Poetry. He has published seven books of poetry, most recently "Thin Ice Olympics" (2022). McDaniel is a recipient of an NEA Fellowship, the Co-Editor of the Pitt Poetry Series, and a professor of creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College.