Edward Hirsch’s poetry collections include For the Sleepwalkers, Wild Gratitude, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, The Night Parade, and Lay Back the Darkness. He has also written a national best-seller, Responsive Reading, and The Demon and the Angel: Searching for the Source of Artistic Inspiration.

He writes a weekly column on poetry for the Washington Post Book World. He has received the Prix de Rome, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature, and a MacArthur Fellowship. He taught for 18 years at the University of Houston.