MORRI CREECH

ERICA DAWSON

JEFFREY HARRISON

JOSEPH HARRISON

J.D. MCCLATCHY

ERIC MCHENRY

MARY JO SALTER

W.D. SNODGRASS

MARK STRAND

DEBORAH WARREN

CLIVE WATKINS

RICHARD WILBUR

GREG WILLIAMSON

W. D. Snodgrass was born in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, in 1926 and was educated at Geneva College. His studies were interrupted during World War II when he was drafted into the United States Navy. After demobilization, Snodgrass resumed his studies at the University of Iowa, eventually enrolling in the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Snodgrass’s first poems appeared in 1951, and throughout the 1950s he published in some of the most prestigious magazines. In 1957, five sections from a sequence entitled Heart’s Needle were included in Hall, Pack, and Simpson’s anthology, New Poets of England and America, and these were to mark a turning point. By the time Heart’s Needle was published in 1959, Snodgrass had already won the Hudson Review Fellowship in Poetry and an Ingram Merrill Foundation Poetry Prize. His first book also brought a citation from the Poetry Society of America, a grant from the National Institute of Arts, and 1960s Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. Snodgrass went on to produce an impressively diverse body of work, including After Experience, Remains, A Locked House, W. D.’s Midnight Carnival, The Death of Cock Robin, Each in His Season, The Führer Bunker , seven volumes of translations, and a large number of essays, some of which were collected in In Radical Pursuit. Snodgrass has a long and distinguished academic career behind him, having taught at Cornell, Rochester, Wayne State, Syracuse, Old Dominion, and Delaware Universities. He retired from teaching in 1994 and now devotes himself full time to his writing. He lives with his wife, the writer, Kathleen Snodgrass (née Browne), spending six months of each year at their home in New York and the other six months in Mexico.