Mark Doty is the author of nine books of poems, including Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems, which won the National Book Award for poetry in 2008, and Deep Lane, a new collection published by W.W. Norton in 2015. He’s also the author of five books of nonfiction prose, most recently The Art of Description: World into Word. a handbook for writers. He lives in New York City and is Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University. He is teaching a poetry workshop at Castle Hill the week of September 12.