Jorie Graham won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974–1994 (Ecco, 1995). Born in New York City and raised in Rome, she earned a BA from New York University and an MFA from the University of Iowa. She is the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University, the first woman appointed to the chair. Her other collections include Erosion (1983), Swarm (2000), and Fast (2017). She taught for years at the Iowa Writers' Workshop before joining the Harvard faculty.
