Sharon Olds

Named New York State Poet in 1998, Sharon Olds (author page at Amazon) is the author of nine books of poetry. The Dead and the Living received the National Book Critics Circle Award, The Unswept Room was a finalist for the National Book Award and The National Book Critics Circle Award, and One Secret Thing was a finalist for the Forward Prize. She teaches at New York University’s Graduate Program in Creative Writing, where she has been involved with NYU’s outreach workshops. Her collection of poetry Stag’s Leap will be out this fall. (updated 10/2012)

AGNI has published the following work by Sharon Olds:

•The Dead Body Itself
•Directly
•Directly
•The Germans Put the Torch to the Ukraine, 1939
•The Last Day
•The Last Hour
•Looking at My Father
•Maritime
•Unknown