Recipient of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Sharon Olds was born in San Francisco, California, and received her BA from Stanford University and her PhD from Columbia University. Her collection The Dead and the Living (Knopf, 1984) won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was the 1983 Lamont Poetry Selection. Stag's Leap (Knopf, 2012) won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2013 and the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2012. Her other collections include Satan Says (1980) and The Father. She has received the Frost Medal for lifetime achievement. She teaches creative writing at New York University.
