Background
Chiasson was born in Burlington, Vermont.
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Dan Chiasson
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He graduated summa cum laude from Amherst College (1993), and from Harvard University, where he received a Doctor of Philosophy in English and was awarded the Whiting Foundation Award in the Humanities.
Career
He is the author of five books His name is usually pronounced "chase-in." He is currently an associate professor of English at Wellesley College. Chiasson is also affiliated with Boston University"s Master of Fine Arts program, where he has taught workshops, and with New York University"s program in Paris, France.
He lives in Wellesley, Massachusetts.
He is the poetry critic for The New Yorker, as well as a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, where he writes about poetry, popular music and film. He was poetry editor, and later advisory editor, of the Paris Review.
His poems have been translated into many languages, including German by January Wagner. His "Natural History" was published as "Naturgeschichte" at Luxbooks, a publishing house focused on American poetry in bilingual editions.
In the United Kingdom, he is published by Bloodaxe Books.
He is on the editorial board of the literary magazine The Common, based at Amherst College. 2008 Award in Literature, American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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Guggenheim Fellowship Pushcart Prize; Whiting award; Whiting Foundation Award
The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best 'poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot' published in the small presses over the previous year.The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best 'poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot' published in the small presses over the previous year.