Sharon Olds

Born in San Francisco on November 19, 1942, Sharon Olds earned a BA at Stanford University in 1964 and a PhD at Columbia University in 1972. Olds’s first collection of poems, Satan Says (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1980), received the inaugural San Francisco Poetry Center Award. Her following collection, The Dead & the Living (Alfred A. Knopf, 1984), was the Lamont Poetry Selection in 1983 and won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her other collections include Balladz (Alfred A. Knopf, 2022), short-listed for the 2023 T. S. Eliot Prize; Arias (Alfred A. Knopf, 2019); Stag’s Leap (Alfred A. Knopf, 2012), a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T. S. Eliot Prize; and The Father (Alfred A. Knopf, 1992), which was short-listed for the T. S. Eliot Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. (Source)