Stephen Dunn

Stephen Dunn
Stephen Dunn at the 2012 National Book Festival
Stephen Dunn at the 2012 National Book Festival
Born(1939-06-24)June 24, 1939
Forest Hills, Queens, New York, U.S.
DiedJune 24, 2021(2021-06-24) (aged 82)
Frostburg, Maryland, U.S.
OccupationProfessor and poet
EducationHofstra University (BA)
Syracuse University (MFA)
GenrePoetry
Notable awardsPulitzer Prize for Poetry;
Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters

Stephen Elliot Dunn (June 24, 1939 – June 24, 2021) was an American poet and educator who authored twenty-one collections of poetry. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 2000 collection, Different Hours, and received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.[1][2] He also won three National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships, Guggenheim Fellowship,[3] and Rockefeller Foundations Fellowship.[4]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference MacWilliams was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Stephen Dunn: Influences". Retrieved June 27, 2021.
  3. ^ "Stephen Dunn - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". Archived from the original on April 14, 2013. Retrieved September 27, 2012.
  4. ^ "Reading and Lecture by Stephen Dunn". Archived from the original on April 28, 2012.