Sharon Dolin is a Jewish American poet, translator, and essayist, who is noted for her work in
ekphrasis
The word ekphrasis, or ecphrasis, comes from the Greek for the written description of a work of art produced as a rhetorical or literary exercise, often used in the adjectival form ekphrastic. It is a vivid, often dramatic, verbal descrip ...
—writing in dialogue with art.
Life
Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, she lives in Manhattan, where she is Associate Editor of Barrow Street Press and directs Writing about Art in Barcelona. Dolin earned her B.A. degree from Cornell University in 1977, an M.A. from University of California at Berkeley in 1982, and a Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1990.
Dolin received the
Witter Bynner Fellowship
Witter Bynner Fellowships are administered by the Library of Congress and sponsored by the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry, an organization that provides grant support for poetry programs through nonprofit organizations. Fellows are chosen by t ...
from the Library of Congress and the AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry.
Dolin co-founded the Center for Book Arts Letterpress Poetry Chapbook Competition as well as the CBA Broadside Reading Series. She has taught at
The Cooper Union
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art (Cooper Union) is a private college at Cooper Square in New York City. Peter Cooper founded the institution in 1859 after learning about the government-supported École Polytechnique in ...
,
Hofstra University
Hofstra University is a private university in Hempstead, New York. It is Long Island's largest private university. Hofstra originated in 1935 as an extension of New York University (NYU) under the name Nassau College – Hofstra Memorial of Ne ...
,
The New School
The New School is a private research university in New York City. It was founded in 1919 as The New School for Social Research with an original mission dedicated to academic freedom and intellectual inquiry and a home for progressive thinkers. ...
(where she was Writer-in-Residence at Eugene Lang College from 2006 to 2012), the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y,
and Poets House.
Published works
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Translations
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References
External links
Learning Early from Hitchcock that Nightmares Can be Real Excerpt for ''Hitchcock Blonde'' on LitHub.
Sharon Dolin on Advice, Poetry and "Happenstance" Missouri Review Interview.
Economy of Means: On Translating Gemma Gorga
Q&A: Sharon Dolin Poetry Magazine interview from 2012.
Poet Invents Eighth Deadly Sin NPR Interview from 2008.
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American poets
Cornell University alumni
University of California, Berkeley alumni