Linda Pastan
Linda Pastan is the author of 11 collections of poetry, including the most recent, The Last Uncle: Poems (Norton, 2003). She has won numerous awards and distinctions, including the 2003 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, a Pushcart Prize, the Dylan Thomas Award, the Di Castagnola Award (Poetry Society of America), the Bess Hokin Prize (Poetry Magazine), the Maurice English Award and the Charity Randall Citation of the International Poetry Forum. She served as Poet Laureate of Maryland from 1991 to 1995 and was on the staff of the Breadloaf Writers Conference for 20 years. She lives in Potomac, Md.
