Stag's Leap: Poems
SHARON OLDS was born in San Francisco and educated at Stanford and Columbia universities. Her first book,Satan Says(1980), received the inaugural San Francisco Poetry Center Award. Her second,The Dead and the Living,was  both the Lamont Poetry Selection for 1983 and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.The Fatherwas short-listed for the T. S. Eliot Prize in England, andThe Unswept Roomwas a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Olds teaches in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at New York University and is one of the founders of  NYU's writing workshops for residents of Goldwater Hospital, and for veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.