Sharon Olds "The Race"




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Summary: <p><strong>Sharon Olds</strong> (born November 19, 1942) is an American poet. Olds won the first San Francisco Poetry Center Award in 1980,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_Olds#cite_note-1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[1]</a> the 1984 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Book_Critics_Circle_Award" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">National Book Critics Circle Award</a>,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_Olds#cite_note-2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[2]</a> and the 2013 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_in_Poetry" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Pulitzer Prize in Poetry</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_Olds#cite_note-2013_Pulitzer_Prizes-3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[3]</a> She teaches creative writing at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_University" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">New York University</a> and is a previous director of the Creative Writing Program at NYU.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_Olds#cite_note-4" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[4]</a></p><br><p><em>-Bio via Wikipedia</em></p><br><hr><p style="color:grey;font-size:0.75em;"> See <a style="color:grey;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>