Daniel B. Summerhill is an Assistant Professor of Poetry in the English Department. He is the author of two collections of poems, Divine, Divine, Divine (2021) and Mausoleum of Flowers (2022). The inaugural Poet Laureate of Monterey County, Summerhill has earned fellowships from Baldwin for the Arts, Esperimento sul Respiro and The Watering Hole. His poems and essays appear in The Academy of American Poets, Columbia Journal, Callaloo, Ploughshares, Obsidian, The Wall Street Journal and elsewhere. Daniel believes in the liberation of oppressed peoples everywhere, especially through the dissolution of empire.