Mary Doty is the author of more than ten volumes of poetry, including School of the Arts, Source and My Alexandria, which won the T. S. Eliot Prize 1995, making him the first American poet to be awarded the Prize. He was also shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize with his collections Theory of Apparitions (2008) and Deep Lane (2015), published by Cape Poetry. He has published several acclaimed volumes of non-fiction prose including the memoir Dog Years (2022). His many honours include the National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a Whiting Writers’ Award and a Lila Wallace–Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award. He is Professor/Writer in Residence at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA. Photo © Rachel Eliza Griffiths
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