Author of numerous collections of poetry, including The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems (winner of the 1996 Pulitzer Prize), The Errancy (named by the New York Times as one of the "Notable Book of 1997") and, most recently, Swarm, Jorie Graham is celebrated for her lyrical, sensuous writing and her intensely personal style.

"She provides," writes The Nation, "all the satisfactions we expect from poetry-aural beauty, emotional weight-along with an intellectual rigor we don't expect." Graham was recently appointed Boylston Professor at Harvard University and divides her time between Iowa and Massachusetts.