Sharon Olds

American poet · United States · On the map · Writers · Born 1942 · age 83

Sharon Olds is an American poet. She won the first San Francisco State University Poetry Center Award in 1980, the 1984 National Book Critics Circle Award, and the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. She teaches creative writing at New York University and is a previous director of the Creative Writing Program at NYU.

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2022Robert Frost MedalAwardRuth Lilly Poetry PrizeAward2016Wallace Stevens AwardAward2013Pulitzer Prize for PoetryAward2002Fellowship of the Academy of American PoetsAward1984National Book Critics Circle Award for PoetryAward1981Guggenheim FellowshipAward1942Born19 November 1942

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