Mark Doty is the author of seven books of poetry, including My Alexandria (University of Illinois Press, 1993),which was chosen for the National Poetry Series by Philip Levine and won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the T.S. Eliot Prize in the United Kingdom, and was a finalist for the National Book Award.

He is also the author of three nonfiction works, including Heaven’s Coast (HarperCollins, 1996), which won the PEN Martha Albrand Award for Nonfiction, and was named a Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times.

Doty's work has been recognized by a Whiting Writers Award, and by fellowships from the Guggenheim and Ingram-Merrill Foundations, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Lila Wallace/Readers Digest Fund.

He has taught at Columbia University, Sarah Lawrence College, and the University of Iowa Writers Workshop. He is currently John and Rebecca Moores Professor in the graduate programme at the University of Houston. School of the Arts (Cape) was published in 2005.

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