Doty was born in Maryville. Tennessee. earned his Bachelor of Humanistic disciplines from Drake University in Des Moines. Iowa. and received his Maestro of Fine Arts in originative authorship from Goddard College in Vermont. In 1989. his spouse Wally Roberts tested positive for HIV. [ 1 ] which drastically changed Doty’s composing. Roberts’s decease in 1994 divine Doty to compose Atlantis. Heaven’s Coast: A Memoir besides deals with this topic and received the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction. [ 2 ] In 1995. he was the first American poet to win the ?10. 000 T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry. for his book My Alexandria. The book was besides a finalist for the National Book Award and the victor of the 1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Doty
...besides received a 1994 Whiting Writers’ Award.
He has written twelve books of poesy and three memoirs. Firebird told the narrative of his childhood in the American South and in Arizona. Dog Years was a memoir of the lives of two of his Canis familiariss who Doty had while covering with the decease of his spouse and the desolation of 9-11. Louise Erdrich praised the book as being “about Canis familiariss. that is to state. about everything we can non speak about… the ‘unsayable’ about our relationships with animate beings. and about indefinable times of loss. Dog Years is non a dark book. It is illuminated from within by gorgeous admiration. ” Dog Years is the victor of the 2008 American Library Association Stonewall Book Awards Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award. His last book of poesy Fire to Fire
New and Selected Poems won the 2008 National Book Award for Poetry. [ 3 ]
He lives in New York City and Fire Island. New York. He was the John and Rebecca Moores Professor in the alumnus plan at The University of Houston Creative Writing Program. He has besides participated in The Juniper Summer Writing Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s MFA Program for Poets & A ; Writers and was on the module of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference in August 2006. He is the inaugural justice of the White Crane/James White Poetry Prize for Excellence in Gay Men’s Poetry. Doty is a justice for the 2013 Griffin Poetry Prize.
He now teaches at Rutgers University. His hubby since 1995 is the author Paul Lisicky.
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