Daniel Scott Tysdal is a mad writer, filmmaker, and Professor (Teaching Stream) in the Department of English at the University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC), where he has taught since 2009.

He is the award-winning author of four books of poetry, including The End Is in the Middle: Mad Fold-In Poems, which was shortlisted for the 2023 ReLit Award, the Nelson Ball Prize, and longlisted for the Raymond Souster Award. His works include the short story collection Wave Forms and Doom Scrolls (Wolsak and Wynn), the textbook The Writing Moment: A Practical Guide to Creating Poems (Oxford University Press), and the popular TEDx talk, “Everything You Need to Write a Poem (and How It Can Save a Life),” which has 1.3 million views.