DANIEL HALPERN

Daniel Halpern (1945, Syracuse, NY) is an influential editor, publishing executive, and the founder of Ecco Press, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. He is also a writer and poet, as well as the co-founder of the literary magazine Antaeus, which he edited for twenty-five years. In 2009, he received the first Editor's Award, given by Poets and Writers. And in 2015, he received the Maxwell E. Perkins Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Field of Fiction from the Center for Fiction. He is the author of many books of poetry, including Something Shining: Poems (Knopf, 1999), and Tango (Elisabeth Sifton/Viking, 1987). Halpern’s honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. From 1975 to 1995, he taught in Columbia University’s graduate writing program. He has also taught at Princeton University and The New School.

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