[2] Kate Daniels resides in Nashville, Tennessee, where she is the Edwin Mims Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Vanderbilt University.
Daniels' poetry consistently explores aspects of gender-based and Southern working class experience, and has been described as "distinct in the general history of southern poetry in its devotion to recovering the urban, working-class South, presenting a vision of the literal and cultural poverty" of such lives.
Her second volume, The Niobe Poems (University of Pittsburgh, 1988), received honorable mention for the Paterson Poetry Prize.
Four Testimonies, her third volume, was selected by Dave Smith for his imprint Southern Messenger Series, published by LSU Press (1998).
She has participated in the Lannan Poetry Foundation's Readings & Conversations programs, interviewing Philip Levine and Tony Hoagland.