Sharon Dolin is an American poet, translator, and essayist, who is noted for her work in ekphrasis—writing in dialogue with art.
[1] Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, she lives in Manhattan, where she is Associate Editor of Barrow Street Press and directs Writing about Art in Barcelona.
[citation needed] Dolin received the Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress[2] and the AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry.
[3] Dolin co-founded the Center for Book Arts Letterpress Poetry Chapbook Competition as well as the CBA Broadside Reading Series.
[citation needed] She has taught at The Cooper Union, Hofstra University, The New School (where she was Writer-in-Residence at Eugene Lang College from 2006 to 2012), the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y,[4] and Poets House.