Stephanie Burt

About the Author

Stephanie Burt is Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English at Harvard University. She received a 2016 Guggenheim Fellowship for poetry, and the National Endowment for the Arts selected her book of poems Advice from the Lights as a national Big Read pick. Her work appears regularly in the New York Times Book Review, New Yorker, London Review of Books, and other journals. Her other books of poetry and literary criticism—fourteen in all—include We Are Mermaids and Don’t Read Poetry: A Book About How to Read Poems. She lives in Massachusetts.