Sharon Dolin
{{Short description|American author, entrepreneur, and community activist}}
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Sharon Dolin is an American poet, translator, and essayist, who is noted for her work in ekphrasis—writing in dialogue with art.{{Cite web|url=https://therumpus.net/2016/08/manual-for-living-by-sharon-dolin/|title=Manual For Living by Sharon Dolin|date=August 24, 2016|website=The Rumpus.net}}
Life
Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, she lives in Manhattan, where she is Associate Editor of Barrow Street Press and directs Writing about Art in Barcelona.{{citation needed|date=September 2020}} Dolin earned her B.A. degree from Cornell University in 1977, an M.A. from University of California at Berkeley in 1982, and a Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1990.{{citation needed|date=September 2020}}
Dolin received the Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress{{Cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/poetry/prize-fellow/bynner.html|title=Witter Bynner Fellowships (Prizes and Fellowships, The Poetry and Literature Center at the Library of Congress)|website=www.loc.gov}} and the AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry.{{Cite web|url=https://www.awpwriter.org/|title=AWP: Award Series Winners|website=www.awpwriter.org}}
Dolin co-founded the Center for Book Arts Letterpress Poetry Chapbook Competition as well as the CBA Broadside Reading Series.{{citation needed|date=September 2020}} She has taught at The Cooper Union, Hofstra University, The New School (where she was Writer-in-Residence at Eugene Lang College from 2006 to 2012), the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y,{{cite book|author1=Deborah Ager|author2=M. E. Silverman|title=The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pW_cAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA51|date=26 September 2013|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=978-1-4411-8304-0|page=51}} and Poets House.{{citation needed|date=September 2020}}
Published works
- {{cite book |last=Dolin|first=Sharon| title=Hitchcock Blonde: A Cinematic Memoir|publisher=Terra Nova Press |year=2020| isbn=9781949597080}}
- {{cite book |last=Dolin|first=Sharon| title=Manual for Living|publisher=University of Pittsburgh Press |year=2016| isbn=9780822964063}}
- {{cite book |last=Dolin|first=Sharon| title=Whirlwind|publisher=University of Pittsburgh Press |year=2012| isbn=9780822962212}}
- {{cite book |last=Dolin|first=Sharon| title=Burn and Dodge|publisher=University of Pittsburgh Press |year=2008| isbn=9780822960058}}
- {{cite book |last=Dolin|first=Sharon| title=Realm of the Possible|publisher=Four Way Books|year=2004| isbn= 9781884800573}}
- {{cite book |last=Dolin|first=Sharon| title=Serious Pink|publisher=Marsh Hawk Press|year=2003| isbn= 9780971333260}}
- {{cite book |last=Dolin|first=Sharon| title=Heart Work|publisher=The Sheep Meadow Press|year=1995| isbn= 9781878818423}}
Translations
- {{cite book |last=Gorga|first=Gemma| title=Book of Minutes|publisher=Oberlin College Press |year=2019| isbn=9780997335552}}. Translated from the Catalan by Sharon Dolin.
References
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External links
- [https://lithub.com/learning-early-from-hitchcock-that-nightmares-can-be-real/ Learning Early from Hitchcock that Nightmares Can be Real]. Excerpt for Hitchcock Blonde on LitHub.
- [https://www.missourireview.com/sharon-dolin-on-advice-poetry-and-happenstance/ Sharon Dolin on Advice, Poetry and "Happenstance"]. Missouri Review Interview.
- [https://pen.org/economy-of-means-on-translating-gemma-gorga/ Economy of Means: On Translating Gemma Gorga].
- [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/articles/69891/qa-sharon-dolin Q&A: Sharon Dolin]. Poetry Magazine interview from 2012.
- [https://www.npr.org/transcripts/95867915 Poet Invents Eighth Deadly Sin]. NPR Interview from 2008.
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