Daniel Anderson (born December 19, 1964) is an American poet and educator.
Anderson, an Ohio native, holds degrees in English and Creative Writing from the University of Cincinnati and Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of three collections of poetry and the editor of Howard Nemerov's Selected Poems. He has held teaching positions at Murray State University, the , Kenyon College, the University of North Carolina, and the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Currently, he is Professor at the University of Oregon, where he teaches in the graduate Creative Writing program. Anderson frequently serves as a faculty member at the Sewanee Writers' Conference.