Sharon Dolin

Sharon Dolin was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. A Fulbright Scholar to Italy, she holds a Ph.D. in English from Cornell University and an M.A. in English from the University of California at Berkeley. She holds a B.A. and graduated Magna cum laude in English from Cornell University.

Hitchcock Blonde: A Cinematic Memoir (Terra Nova Press, 2020) is her first book of prose.

Sharon Dolin has been awarded the distinguished 2013 Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress, selected by Former Poet Laureate of the U.S., Natasha Trethewey.

She is the author of six books of poetry: Manual for Living (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016), Whirlwind (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012), Burn and Dodge (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008), selected by Bob Hicok for the 2007 AWP Donald Hall Prize in Poetry; Realm of the Possible (Four Way Books, 2004); Serious Pink (Marsh Hawk Press, 2003; reissued 2015); and Heart Work (The Sheep MeadowPress, 1995). Her translation from Catalan of Gemma Gorga's book of prose poems Book of Minutes (Field Translation Series, Oberlin College Press, 2019) received grants from PEN and the Raimon Llull Foundation.

She directs and teaches in the international writing workshop, Writing About Art in Barcelona. She currently teaches poetry workshops in New York City.