Mark Doty is an American poet now teaching at Rutgers University. In 1995 he made history as the first American to win the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry. Doty has written 12 books of poetry, the latest of which, Fire to Fire, won him the 2008 National Book Award for Poetry. He has also written three memoirs, including Dog Years: A Memoir, for which he was awarded a 2008 American Library Association Stonewall Book Award for Non-Fiction. Zach Dyer interviewed Doty about New York’s function as a muse and learning to go beyond initial inspiration.
