Daniel Bowman Jr.'s work has appeared in The Adirondack Review, American Poetry Journal, The Bitter Oleander, Main Street Rag, The Midwest Quarterly, The Northern Agrarian, Redactions: Poetry & Poetics, Rio Grande Review, Rock & Sling, Seneca Review, and other journals. He recently completed his first novel, Beggars in Heaven.

Born in Dover, Delaware in 1977, he was raised in Mohawk, New York where he attended Gregory B. Jarvis High School.

Upon graduating from Roberts Wesleyan College, he taught English for several years before earning an MA in Comparative Literature from the University of Cincinnati, where he taught composition and literature and served as editorial assistant at The Cincinnati Review.

Currently, he lives in upstate New York with his wife Beth and their two children. He has taught at Monroe Community College and Roberts Wesleyan College. He now teaches at Houghton College. Also, he is a student in the low-residency MFA program in Creative Writing at Seattle Pacific University.