Daniel Poppick is an American poet who received his MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and his BA from Kenyon College. He has received fellowships from Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony. His debut collection The Police (Omnidawn, 2017) received praise for its electrical syntax and formally inventive navigation of contemporary life, language, and intimacy. His second collection Fear of Description (Penguin Books, 2019) was selected by Brenda Shaughnessy as the winner of the 2018 National Poetry Series. His work appears in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The New Republic, BOMB, and Poetry. He lives in Brooklyn and works as a copywriter. His debut novel The Copywriter (Scribner, 2026) was named among LitHub's most anticipated books.