Mark Doty is a poet and memoirist. His Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems received the National Book Award for Poetry in 2008. Doty is the recipient of numerous other awards and recognitions, including the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a Whiting Writers Award, and the T. S. Eliot Prize, as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim, and the Ingram Merrill Foundation. (updated 6/2010)