STEPHEN DUNN (1938-2021), is the author of fifteen collections of poetry. His 2001 collection, Different Hours, won the Pulitzer Prize and an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His other awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, Rockefeller Foundations Fellowship, and three National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships.

Dunn’s work also appeared in The New Yorker, The Georgia Review,The Atlantic, The Nation, The New Republic and American Poetry Review, among other publications. Dunn serves as Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. (June 24, 1939 – June 24, 2021)