WriterJean Valentine

Jean Valentine is the author of nine books of poetry, most recently Door in the Mountain, New & Collected Poems (Wesleyan University Press, 2004) which won the National Book Award for 2004. Earlier books are Dream Barker, winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets in 1965, The River at Wolf (Alice James Books, 1992) and The Cradle of the Real Life (Wesleyan, 2002). Valentine has taught at Barnard College, Columbia U., Sarah Lawrence College, NYU, Hunter College, and the 92nd Street Y. She lives and works in New York City.