David Baker (born December 27, 1954; Bangor, Maine) is an American poet.
David Baker was born in Bangor, Maine, in 1954, and was raised in Missouri. He graduated from Central Missouri State University and from the University of Utah with a Ph.D. in 1983.
He 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 currently holds the Thomas B. Fordham Chair of Creative Writing and is Professor of English. He also teaches regularly in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and serves on the faculty of many writing workshops around the country.
His work appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The Nation,The New Republic, "The New York Times," The New Yorker,The Paris Review,Poetry, The Yale Review.
He lives in Granville, Ohio, and serves as Poetry Editor of The Kenyon Review.