Mark Doty is the author of eight books of poems, including Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems, which won the National Book Award for Poetry. He has also published five volumes of nonfiction prose, among them Dog Years, which was named a New York Times bestseller. He has been awarded the T. S. Eliot Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a Whiting Writers Award, two Lambda Literary Awards, and the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction. He teaches at Rutgers University and lives in New York City.