Stephen Dunn is the winner in poetry of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for his collection Different Hours (Norton, 2000). He is the author of ten previous collections of poetry. Loosestrife (Norton, 1996) was a National Book Critics Circle award nominee, and Local Time (William Morrow, 1986) was selected for the National Poetry Series by Dave Smith. In 1994 his New and Selected Poems, 1974-1994 appeared from Norton. He is the recipient of a 1995 Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Literature. Among his other awards are the Levinson Prize from Poetry magazine, the Theodore Roethke Prize from Poetry Northwest, and fellowships from the N.E.A. and the Guggenheim Foundation. His poem "How by Design" appears exclusively in Smartish Pace, Issue 3, where it received the Editors’ First Choice Award in fall, 2000. He was born in Queens, New York, graduated from Hofstra College where he played varsity basketball, and received his MFA from Syracuse University. He is a Trustee Fellow in the Arts and Professor of Creative Writing at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey.