Stephen Dobyns

Author of more than 30 books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, including a recent book of poems, Pallbearers Envying the One Who Rides. His book, Cemetery Nights, won the Poetry Society of America’s 1987 Melville Cane Award. Received a Guggenheim fellowship and three National Endowment for the Arts fellowships. Taught at a dozen colleges and universities, including the University of Iowa, Boston University, and the MFA program at Warren Wilson College. Recently published his first collection of short stories, Eating Naked: Stories, two stories appeared in The Best American Short Stories 1995 and 1999; poetry collection, The Porcupine’s Kisses, published by Penguin in fall 2002. SLC, 2003—