MARK DOTY is the author of Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems, which won the 2008 National Book Award. His other collections of poetry include School of the Arts, Atlantis, and My Alexandria, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has also published four works of nonfiction prose, including Dog Years and Heaven’s Coast, which received the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction. Doty lives in New York City and on the east end of Long Island, and he teaches at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.