Sharon Dolin
Associate Editor, Barrow Street Press
Biography
Sharon Dolin is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently Imperfect Present (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022) and Manual for Living (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016). Her fourth book, Burn and Dodge, won the AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry. A 2021 NEA recipient, she is also the author of Hitchcock Blonde: A Cinematic Memoir (Terra Nova Press, 2020) and two books of translation: Book of Minutes (Oberlin College Press, 2019) and Late to the House of Words: Selected Poems by Gemma Gorga (Saturnalia Books, 2021), winner of the Malinda A Markham Translation Prize and shortlisted for the 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize. She is Associate Editor at Barrow Street Press and lives in New York City.
Published Works
Poetry
Imperfect Present (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022)
Manual for Living (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016)
Whirlwind (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012)
Burn and Dodge (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008)
Realm of the Possible (Four Way Books, 2004)
Serious Pink (Marsh Hawk Press, 2003; 2015 reissue)
Heart Work (The Sheep Meadow Press, 1995)
Poetry Chapbooks
Entreaty to Indecision (The Center for Book Arts, 2006)
The Seagull (The Center for Book Arts, 2001)
Mistakes (Poetry New York Pamphlet Series, 1999)
Climbing Mount Sinai (Dim Gray Bar Press, 1996)
Mind Lag (Turtle Watch Press, 1982)
Poetry in Translation
Late to the House of Words: Selected Poems by Gemma Gorga (Saturnalia Books, 2021)
Book of Minutes, by Gemma Gorga. Field Translation Series (Oberlin College Press, 2019)
Nonfiction
Hitchcock Blonde: A Cinematic Memoir (Terra Nova Press, 2020)
Links to Sample Works
- Poetry Foundation, “Approach Life as if It Were a Banquet,” “Everything Has Two Handles,” and “Our Duties Are in Relation to One Another”
- Image Journal, “To the Ram’s Horn I Cannot Sound”
- Image Journal, “My Life as an Open-Air Temple”
