Sharon dolin biography

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Sharon Dolin spent her childhood there before she left for Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, graduating magna cum laude in English.

She continued her studies on scholarship, first for a summer at Edinburgh University in Scotland and then in Italy at Perugia’s Università per gli Stranieri. Back in the States, she earned her first Master’s in English at U.C.

Berkeley, before returning to Cornell, where she received a Ph.D. in English in 1990.

Sharon dolin biography

Sharon Dolin has worked as an editor at various publishing houses and newspapers, including The Village Voice, and she taught literature and writing for many years as part of the Humanities Faculty at The Cooper Union.

In 1995, with her husband working part time as a letterpress printer, she founded The Center for Book Arts Letterpress Poetry Chapbook Competition, which she still directs, along with a Broadsides Reading Series at The Center in New York City.

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