Steven Dunn

Stephen Elliot Dunn (1939–2021) was an American poet and educator who authored twenty-one collections of poetry. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 2000 collection Different Hours, along with an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, three National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Rockefeller Foundations Fellowship. Born in Forest Hills, Queens, New York, he taught at Stockton University for three decades and other institutions, and died on his 82nd birthday in Frostburg, Maryland, from Parkinson's disease.