Mark Strand

Mark Strand is the author of twelve books of poems, including Blizzard of One (1998), which won the Pulitzer Prize; Man and Camel (2006); New Selected Poems (2007); Dark Harbor (1993); The Continuous Life (1990); Selected Poems (1980); The Story of Our Lives (1973); and Reasons for Moving (1968). He has also published two books of prose, several volumes of translation (of works by Rafael Alberti and Carlos Drummond de Andrade, among others), several monographs on contemporary artists, and three books for children. He has edited a number of volumes, including The Golden Ecco Anthology (1994), The Best American Poetry 1991, and Another Republic: 17 European and South American Writers (with Charles Simic, 1976). His honors include the Wallace Stevens Award, the Bollingen Prize, the Bobbit Prize, three grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Edgar Allen Poe Prize, and a Rockefeller Foundation award, as well as fellowships from The Academy of American Poets, the MacArthur Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation; in 2006-07, he was the recipient of three international poetry prizes (Premio Cetonaverde, Premio D'Annunzio, and the Premio Bonanni). He has served as Poet Laureate of the United States in 1990-1991. He was formerly the Andrew MacLeish Distinguished Service Professor of Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He won The Gold Medal in Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2009.