Jorie Graham (born in New York City) is one of the most ambitious and celebrated American poets of her generation. Raised in Rome and educated in France and the United States, she holds degrees from NYU, Columbia, and the University of Iowa. Her poetry engages philosophical and phenomenological inquiry — consciousness, time, ecology, and the limits of perception — in expansive, formally restless lines. Her collection The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974–1994 (Ecco, 1995) won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. She is the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University. Her other notable collections include Erosion (1983), Swarm (2000), and Fast (2017).