12 Facts About Mark Doty

Mark Doty was born on August 10,1953 and is an American poet and memoirist best known for his work My Alexandria.

Mark Doty was the winner of the National Book Award for Poetry in 2008.

Mark Doty was born in Maryville, Tennessee, to Lawrence and Ruth Doty, with an older sister, Sarah Alice Doty.

Mark Doty earned a Bachelor of Arts from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, and received his Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont.

Mark Doty had begun the poems collected in Atlantis when Roberts died in 1994.

Mark Doty has written essays on still life painting, objects and intimacy, and a handbook for writers.

Mark Doty's most recent memoir, Dog Years, was a New York Times Bestseller and received the Barbara Gittings Literature Award from the American Library Association in 2008.

Mark Doty served as guest editor for The Best American Poetry 2012.

Mark Doty has taught at the University of Iowa, Princeton University, Sarah Lawrence College, Columbia University, Cornell and NYU.

Mark Doty was the John and Rebecca Moores Professor in the graduate program at The University of Houston Creative Writing Program for ten years, and is currently Distinguished Professor and Writer-in-Residence in the Department of English at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, where he directs Writers House.

Mark Doty was a judge for the 2013 Griffin Poetry Prize.

In 2011, Mark Doty was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.