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Sharon Olds (born November 19, 1942) is an American poet. Olds won the first San Francisco Poetry Center Award in 1980, [1] the 1984 National Book Critics Circle Award , [2] and the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry . [3]
Poet Sharon Olds was born in 1942 in San Francisco and grew up in Berkeley, California where she was raised, she has said, as a “hellfire Calvinist.” She attended Stanford University and earned her Ph.D. at Columbia in 1972. She was thirty-seven when she published her first book of poems, Satan…
Oct 12, 2022 · Sharon Olds, the celebrated modern poet, is more welcoming. You don’t even have to knock; she will already be there, waiting in the hall, calling out greetings. Her voice is easy and...
10 of the Best Sharon Olds Poems Everyone Should Read. By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) The American poet Sharon Olds (born 1942) was born and raised in California and educated at Stanford, although she has spent much of her adult life in New York City.
Sharon Olds, American poet best known for her powerful, often erotic, imagery of the body and her examination of the family. She won the Pulitzer Prize and the T.S. Eliot Prize for the collection Stag’s Leap (2012). Learn more about Olds’s life and work.
Sharon Olds. Born in San Francisco on November 19, 1942, Sharon Olds earned a BA at Stanford University in 1964 and a PhD at Columbia University in 1972. Olds’s first collection of poems, Satan Says (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1980), received the inaugural San Francisco Poetry Center Award.
BIOGRAPHY. Sharon Olds was born in San Francisco and educated at Stanford University and Columbia University. She is the author of thirteen books of poetry, most recently Balladz (2022), a finalist for the National Book Award, Arias (2019), short-listed for the 2020 Griffin Poetry Prize, Odes (2016) and Stag’s Leap (2012), winner of the ...
