Stephen Dunn

StephenDunn was born in Forest Hills, NY in 1939, and earned his BA in History from Hofstra University in 1962. He attended the New School 1964 to 1966 and received his Master of Arts in Creative Writing from Syracuse University in 1970. He’s the author of sixteen books, including Different Hours which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.  Among his other awards were three National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Rockefeller Foundations Fellowship.  Since 1974 he has taught at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, where he is Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing. He’s also been a Visiting Professor at The University of Washington, NYU, Columbia, and the University of Michigan.  In addition he has read his poetry at The Library of Congress, and at many universities and colleges throughout the country. His most recent project is The Keeper of Limits: The Mrs. Cavendish Poems and  is due out from Sarabande in late 2015.