Stephen Dunn

Stephen Dunn is the author of over twenty books of poetry and prose, including Different Hours , winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize. His Loosestrife was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Among his many other awards are an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, The Paterson Prize for Sustained Literary Achievement, fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations, three National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, the Levinson...See more

Stephen Dunn is the author of over twenty books of poetry and prose, including Different Hours , winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize. His Loosestrife was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Among his many other awards are an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, The Paterson Prize for Sustained Literary Achievement, fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations, three National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, the Levinson Prize from Poetry, and the James Wright Prize from Poetry Northwest. Forthcoming from W.W. Norton in 2019 is Pagan Virtues , a book of poems. He is Distinguished Professor emeritus at Richard Stockton University, from which he holds an honorary doctorate. He lives in Frostburg, Maryland, with his wife Barbara Hurd. See less