of an exhausted holiday.
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Sharon Olds was born in 1942, in San Francisco, and educated at Stanford University and Columbia University. Her first book,
Satan Says
(1980), received the inaugural San Francisco Poetry Center Book Award. Her second,
The Dead and the Living
(1984), was both the Lamont Poetry Selection for 1983 and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.
The Father
(1992) was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize in England.
The Unswept Room
(2002) was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Sharon Olds was the New York State Poet from 1998 to 2000. She teaches poetry workshops in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at New York University and was one of the founders of the NYU workshop program at Goldwater Hospital on Roosevelt Island in New York. She is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Sharon Olds was born in 1942, in San Francisco, and educated at Stanford University and Columbia University. Her first book,
Satan Says
(1980), received the inaugural San Francisco Poetry Center Book Award. Her second,
The Dead and the Living
(1984), was both the Lamont Poetry Selection for 1983 and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.
The Father
(1992) was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize in England.
The Unswept Room
(2002) was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Sharon Olds was the New York State Poet from 1998 to 2000. She teaches poetry workshops in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at New York University and was one of the founders of the NYU workshop program at Goldwater Hospital on Roosevelt Island in New York. She is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
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