Mark Doty is a National Book Award winning American poet and memoirist. He earned his Bachelor of Arts from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, then received his Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from Goddard College in Vermont. In 1989, his partner Wally Roberts tested positive for HIV, which drastically changed Doty's writing. Roberts's death in 1994 inspired Doty to write Atlantis, and Heaven's Coast: A Memoir also deals with this subject. In 1995, he won the ₤10,000 T.S.

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  • Mark Doty is a National Book Award winning American poet and memoirist. He earned his Bachelor of Arts from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, then received his Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from Goddard College in Vermont. In 1989, his partner Wally Roberts tested positive for HIV, which drastically changed Doty's writing. Roberts's death in 1994 inspired Doty to write Atlantis, and Heaven's Coast: A Memoir also deals with this subject. In 1995, he won the ₤10,000 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry, the first American poet to have done so. He has written twelve books of poetry and three memoirs. Firebird told the story of his childhood in the American South and in Arizona. Dog Years was a memoir of the lives of two of his dogs who Doty had while dealing with the death of his lover and the devastation of 9-11. Louise Erdrich praised the book as being "about dogs, that is to say, about everything we cannot talk about... the 'unsayable' about our relationships with animals, and about unspeakable times of loss, Dog Years is not a dark book. It is illuminated from within by gorgeous wonder. " Dog Years is the winner of the 2008 American Library Association Stonewall Book Awards Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award. His last book of poetry Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems won the 2008 National Book Award for poetry. He lives in New York City, and Fire Island New York. He was the John and Rebecca Moores Professor in the graduate program at The University of Houston Creative Writing Program. He has also participated in The Juniper Summer Writing Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst's MFA Program for Poets & Writers and was on the faculty of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in August 2006. He is the inaugural judge of the White Crane/James White Poetry Prize for Excellence in Gay Men's Poetry. He now teaches at Rutgers University. His partner since 1995 is the writer Paul Lisicky.
  • Mark Doty (10 de Agosto de 1953 é um poeta americano. Estudou na Drake University em Des Moines, Iowa e especializou-se em escrita criativa no Goddard College em Vermont. Em 1989, o seu parceiro Wally Roberts teve um teste positivo de SIDA, o que modificou radicalmente a escrita de Doty. A morte de Robert, em 1994, esteve na base da sua obra Atlantis. Em 1995 Doty ganhou o prémio de poesia T. S. Eliot, tornando-se o primeiro poeta americano a consegui-lo. Vive em Nova Iorque e Houston, Texas e é professor de escrita criativa na Universidade de Houston.
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  • Mark Doty is a National Book Award winning American poet and memoirist. He earned his Bachelor of Arts from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, then received his Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from Goddard College in Vermont. In 1989, his partner Wally Roberts tested positive for HIV, which drastically changed Doty's writing. Roberts's death in 1994 inspired Doty to write Atlantis, and Heaven's Coast: A Memoir also deals with this subject. In 1995, he won the ₤10,000 T.S.
  • Mark Doty (10 de Agosto de 1953 é um poeta americano. Estudou na Drake University em Des Moines, Iowa e especializou-se em escrita criativa no Goddard College em Vermont. Em 1989, o seu parceiro Wally Roberts teve um teste positivo de SIDA, o que modificou radicalmente a escrita de Doty. A morte de Robert, em 1994, esteve na base da sua obra Atlantis. Em 1995 Doty ganhou o prémio de poesia T. S. Eliot, tornando-se o primeiro poeta americano a consegui-lo.
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