The Ideal Person

Stephen Dunn is the author of eighteen volumes of poetry including Different Hours, which was awarded the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Lines of Defense, Here and Now, and What Goes On: New and Selected Poems 1995-2009. His prose books include Riffs and Reciprocities: Prose Pairs, and Walking Light: Essays and Memoirs. Dunn has received numerous awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. He is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of creative writing at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey.