Mark Doty

Mark Doty is the only American poet to have won Britain's T. S. Eliot Prize for poetry. His six books of poems and three volumes of nonfiction prose have been honored by the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Martha Albrand Nonfiction Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a Whiting Writer's Award, and a Lila Wallace/Reader's Digest Writers Award. His most recent books are Still Life with Oysters and Lemon, a prose meditation, and Source, a new book of poems. He teaches in the graduate writing program at the University of Houston.

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25th Annual Literary Festival