Visit The Cortland Review online and you'll find a short biography and (more importantly) an extensive first-rate interview with Doty. In this interview (conducted by Mark Wunderlich), the author discusses his hope for the future of American poetry, politics, and his work's relationship to autobiography.

Academy of American Poets: Mark Doty
http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=92

Can't find a place to start your research on Doty? Well, here it is-an excellent page devoted to the writer with three full-text poems ("Broadway," "The Embrace," and "A Green Crab's Shell"), a short biography, and a long list of Doty exhibits elsewhere on the Web.

Ploughshares: Mark Doty
http://www.pshares.org/authors/authorDetails.cfm?prmAuthorID=408

Do you need more biographical information about the writer? Visit this page (maintained by Ploughshares, regarded as one of the best literary journals in the country) to read an informative and enlightening account of the author's life, from glimpses at his hometown, to revealing aspects of his life's story.

New Statesman: Mark Doty
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m0FQP/n4336_v126/20036392/p1/article.jhtml

In an excellent interview with the award-winning Doty, Michael Glover of the New Statesman discusses issues such as teaching poetry, how he thinks of himself, politics, and a wealth of other information.

BIOGRAPHY
Mark Doty (b. 1953) was born in Maryville, Tennessee. After earning his B.A. from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, he began working toward his M.F.A. in creative writing from Goddard College in VermontDuring this time Doty met his partner for many years, Wally Roberts. Doty published his first collection of poems, Turtle, Swan,, in 1987. The book was praised for it's simple but lyrical language and candid treatment of gay subject matter. In 1989 Doty's writing took a drastic turn when Wally Roberts tested positive for HIV. His second volume of poems, Bethlehem in Broad Daylight (1991), showed this darker change, but it was 1993's My Alexandria that proved to be Doty's commercial and critical breakthrough. The book won the Los Angeles Times, Book Award for Poetry in 1993, the National Book Critic's Circle Award for Poetry in 1994, and Doty became the first American to win the T. S. Eliot Prize for best book of poetry published in the United Kingdom in 1995. After Roberts' tragic death in 1994, Doty wrote another acclaimed book about the ordeal, Atlantis, (1995), which won the Boston Review Poetry Prize, the Ambassador Book Award, the Bingham Poetry Prize, and the Lambda Literary Award. In 1996 he published a memoir about his experience titled Heaven's Coast, which was awarded the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for first book of nonfiction. Doty began writing poetry again and published Sweet Machine in 1998, closely followed by another memoir dealing with his childhood, Firebird (1999).