Stephen Dunn  (b. 1939) LINKS Stephen Dunn: 2001 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Poetry http://www2.stockton.edu/sdunn/ The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey’s Web site for their Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing, Richard Stockton, highlights some of Dunn’s impressive achievements, including his comments on his Pulitzer Prize winning collection of poems, Different Hours. Stephen Dunn—March 2000 Feature http://www.cortlandreview.com/features/00/03/ The March 2000 issue of The Cortland Review featured an interview with Stephen Dunn. This Web site reprints Philip Dacey’s interview with Dunn and provides the introduction in audio for those with RealAudio. Poetry Daily Feature: Stephen Dunn http://www.poems.com/diffedun.htm Poetry Daily’s Web site reprints Dunn’s poem “Sexual Revolution” from his Pulitzer Prize winning collection of poems, Different Hours. This site also provides the cover photo and jacket quotes from this award-winning work. Woodstock Poetry Festival—Poets: Stephen Dunn http://www.woodstockpoetryfestival.com/dunn.htm The Woodstock Poetry Festival’s page on Stephen Dunn reprints Dunn’s poems, “The Reverse Side” and “Oklahoma City.” BIOGRAPHY Dunn was born in New York City and educated at Hofstra University (B.A., 1962), the New School for Social Research, and Syracuse University (M.A., 1970). He played professional basketball for the Williamsport (PA) Billies (1962–1963) but then moved back to New York, where he worked as a copywriter and assistant editor. He began a college teaching career and is now a professor of creative writing at Stockton State College in New Jersey. His first book of poems, Five Impersonations, appeared in 1971, and was followed by several volumes, the most recent being Walking Light: Essays and Memoirs (1993), New and Selected Poems: 1974–1994 (1994), Loosestrife (1996), Riffs and Reciprocities Prose Pairs (1998), and Different Hours (2000). He has won several awards and fellowships, including three National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, Yaddo Fellowships (1979–89), and a Guggenheim Fellowship (1984–85). His volume Local Time was the National Poetry Series winner in 1986; Different Hours won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for poetry.