DANA GIOIA was born in Los Angeles in 1950. He received his B.A. and M.B.A. degrees from Stanford University. He also has an M.A. in Comparative Literature from Harvard University. For fifteen years he worked as a business executive in New York before quitting in 1992 to write full-time. He has published four earlier collections of poetry—Daily Horoscope (1986), The Gods of Winter (1991), Interrogations at Noon (2001) which won the American Book Award, and Pity the Beautiful (2012). Gioia’s first critical collection, Can Poetry Matter? (1992), was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has received the Laetare Medal from Notre Dame University and the Aiken Taylor Award for lifetime contribution to American poetry. From 2003 to 2009 he served as Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. An essayist, reviewer, and translator, Gioia has also published fifteen anthologies of poetry and fiction. He divides his time between Los Angeles and Sonoma County, California. In 2011 he became the Judge Widney Professor of Poetry and Public Culture at the University of Southern California.

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