Mark Strand (poetry) published his first poetry collection, Sleeping with One Eye Open (Stone Wall Press), in 1964. Others include Reasons for Moving, Darker, The Story of Our Lives (winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Academy of American Poets), The Late Hour, Selected Poems (Atheneum, 1980), The Continuous Life, and Dark Harbor (Alfred A. Knopf, 1990 and 1993). Blizzard of One (Alfred A. Knopf, 1998) won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize. Alfred A. Knopf published Man and Camel in 2006 and New Selected Poems the following year. He has translated collections of poems and written three volumes of art criticism—Art of the Real: Nine American Figurative Painters (Clarkson Potter, 1983), William Bailey (Abrams, 1987), and Edward Hopper (Ecco Press, 1994; Knopf, 2001)—as well as three children’s books. His honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Academy of American Poets, and the Ingram Merrill, Rockefeller, and Guggenheim foundations. He is a member of the National Institute of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 1987, he served as Poet Laureate of the United States in 1990. In 2004 he received the Wallace Stevens Prize from the Academy of American Poets and in 2009 he received the Gold Medal for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. He teaches at Columbia University.