W. S. Merwin

W. S. Merwin’s many awards include the 2005 National Book Award for Migration: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon), the Pulitzer Prize, the Tanning Prize, the Bollingen Award, and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. He is the author of dozens of books of poetry and prose, most recently Present Company (Copper Canyon, 2005). For the past thirty years he has lived in Hawaii.