Daniel Tobin is the author of ten books of poems, most recently Blood Labors (2018), which the New York Times and Washington Independent Review of Books named one of the Best Poetry Books of the year, and The Mansions (2023), a trilogy of book-length poems which won the Human Relations Indie Book Award and the National Indie Excellence Award in Poetry. A suite of versions from the German of Paul Celan, The Stone in the Air, was published in 2018, and a chapbook, Gloss Arias I: From the Distances of Sleep, appeared in 2025. He is the author of several critical studies, among them On Serious Earth: On Poetry and Transcendence (2019) and The Odeon: Essays on Poetry (2025), as well as the editor of The Book of Irish American Poetry from the Eighteenth Century to the Present (2007), and To the Many: Collected Early Works of Lola Ridge (2018), which received a Special Commendation from the Poetry Society (UK). His many awards include the Massachusetts Book Award in Poetry, the Julia Ward Howe Prize, the Stephen J. Meringoff Award, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.