David Baker (born December 27, 1954) is an American poet.
David Baker was born in Bangor, Maine in 1954, and was raised in Missouri.
He has taught widely, including at Jefferson City (MO) Senior High School, Kenyon College, the University of Michigan, Ohio State University, and since 1984 at Denison University, in Granville, Ohio, where he held the Thomas B. Fordham Chair of Creative Writing and is Emeritus Professor of English.
He teaches regularly in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and serves on the faculty of many writing workshops around the country.
He lives in Granville, Ohio,[4] and serves as poetry editor of the Kenyon Review.