Dan Burt was born in South Philadelphia, read English at St. John's College, Cambridge and attended Yale Law School. A lawyer and businessman, his poetry and prose have appeared in TLS, The Financial Times, The New Statesman and The Sunday Times, amongst others. Carcanet published We Look Like This, a collected edition of his poetry and prose, in May 2012. Notting Hill Editions published the UK edition of his memoir, You Think It Strange, in 2014, and Overlook Press the US edition in 2015. The Poetry Archive has twice recorded him reading his work. He lives and writes in London and St. John's College, Cambridge, of which he is an Honorary Fellow.