Born in Maryville, Tennessee, Mark Doty holds a BA from Drake University and an MFA from Goddard College. My Alexandria (University of Illinois Press, 1993) was chosen by Philip Levine for the National Poetry Series and won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; its British edition made Doty the first American poet to win the T. S. Eliot Prize. Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems (HarperCollins, 2008) received the National Book Award. Other collections include Atlantis (HarperCollins, 1995) and Deep Lane (W. W. Norton, 2015). He has also published four memoirs.
