Dan Chiasson

Dan Chiasson is the author of five books of poetry, including Bicentennial (2014) and The Math Campers (2020), and a book of literary criticism. His recently published book of nonfiction, Bernie for Burlington: The Rise of the People’s Politician, was named one of Lit Hub’s most anticipated books of 2026 and was described in the New Yorker as “revelatory.” A longtime contributor to the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books, Chiasson is the Lorraine Chao Wang Professor of English and Chair of the English Department at Wellesley College.