Sharon Dolin is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently Imperfect Present and Manual for Living. She is also the author of the prose memoir Hitchcock Blonde and two previous books of translation from Catalan: Gemma Gorga's Book of Minutes, which received grants from PEN America and Institut Ramon Llull, and Late to the House of Words: Selected Poems of Gemma Gorga, winner of the Saturnalia Books inaugural Malinda A. Markham Translation Prize and a finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize. The recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Fulbright Scholarship, AWP Donald Hall Prize, Pushcart Prize, and Witter Bynner Fellowship, Dolin is associate editor of Barrow Street Press and teaches poetry workshops in New York City.