Stephen Dunn is the author of Keeper of Limits: The Mrs. Cavendish Poems (Sarabande, 2015) and Lines of Defense (W.W. Norton & Company, 2014), among others. He has been the recipient of many awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2001, the James Wright Prize, the Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial and Rockefeller Foundations.  

Photo by Andrea Dunn Hurd