About Me
My Work
(Photo credit: Robin Mills)
Dave Seter is an environmental engineer, poet, essayist, and translator. He is the author of the full-length poetry collection Don’t Sing to Me of Electric Fences (Cherry Grove Collections, 2021) and the chapbooks Night Duty (Main Street Rag, 2010) and Somewhere West of the Mississippi (Mammoth Publications, 202
(Photo credit: Robin Mills)
Dave Seter is an environmental engineer, poet, essayist, and translator. He is the author of the full-length poetry collection Don’t Sing to Me of Electric Fences (Cherry Grove Collections, 2021) and the chapbooks Night Duty (Main Street Rag, 2010) and Somewhere West of the Mississippi (Mammoth Publications, 2025). Informed by his career in the field of environmental protection, he writes about social and environmental issues, including the intersection of the built world and natural world. He is also studying Lithuanian and has translated a number of poems by contemporary Lithuanian poets into English and published them in literary journals. His own poetry has recently been translated and published in the Lithuanian language journal Nemunas. His poems have won the KNOCK Ecolit Prize and received third place in the William Matthews competition. He is the recipient of two Pushcart nominations. His poetry book reviews have appeared in Cider Press Review, Poetry Flash, and Tupelo Quarterly. He has been an Affiliate Artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts, and has served on the Board of Directors of Marin Poetry Center. He earned his undergraduate degree in civil engineering from Princeton University and his graduate degree in humanities from Dominican University of California. He recently served as Sonoma County Poet Laureate 2024-6. He has a new book of poems forthcoming in late 2026.