Stephen Dunn was born in Forest Hills, NY in 1939, and earned his BA in History from Hofstra University in 1962. He attended the New School 1964 to 1966 and received his Master of Arts in Creative Writing from Syracuse University in 1970. He's the author of sixteen books, including Different Hours, which won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
Since 1974 he taught at Richard Stockton College of NJ, where he was
Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing. He died in June of 2021
on his 82nd birthday of complications from Parkinson's Disease.
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