Mark Doty

Mark Doty's nine books of poetry include "Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems", which won the National Book Award in the U.S., and "My Alexandria", which received the T. S. Eliot Prize in the U.K. He has also published five books of prose, including "Heaven’s Coast and Still Life with Oysters and Lemon", and "What is the Grass: Walt Whitman in My Life", a critical meditation on Whitman’s poetry. He has received Fellowships from the Guggenheim, Ingram-Merrill and Lila Wallace/Reader’s Digest Foundations, and a Whiting Writer’s Award. A Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University, he lives in upstate New York.