Arthur Sze

Arthur Sze is the twenty-fifth poet laureate of the United States and the author of numerous books, most recently Into the Hush, which was longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the Jean Stein Book Award. Other notable poetry collections include The Glass Constellation: New and Collected Poems, selected for a National Book Foundation Science + Literature Prize; Sight Lines, which won the National Book Award; and Compass Rose, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Sze is also a translator and editor, with the recent translation projects Transient Worlds (his signature US Poet Laureate project) and The Silk Dragon II, and he has published a book of prose, The White Orchard: Selected Interviews, Essays, and Poems. Sze has been recognized with several lifetime achievement awards and fellowships, including the Bollingen Prize for American Poetry, the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, the Jackson Poetry Prize, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, a Lannan Literary Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship, among others. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.