Mark Rudman

Mark Rudman is the author of seven volumes of poetry and three of prose. He is the winner of The National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry for Rider, the Max Hayward Award for his translation of Boris Pasternak's My Sister--Life, and fellowships from the Guggenheim and Ingram Merrill Foundations, the National Endowment on the Arts, and the New York State Council of the Arts. His book Realm of Unknowing was selected by Joyce Carol Oates as one of the best nonfiction books of the 20th century. His poems and essays appear in the New Yorker, Times Literary Supplement, The Nation, Harper's, and many anthologies, such as Best American Poetry and Best American Essays.