David Livewell won the T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize for his first collection, Shackamaxon. His poems have appeared in The Hudson Review, The Threepenny Review, Dark Horse, Poetry, The Yale Review, American Life in Poetry, The Hopkins Review, and other journals, and he received a 2025 fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Livewell was raised in the Kensington section of North Philadelphia, and today he lives with his family just outside of the city.