Elizabeth Bishop Editor & Author

Elizabeth Bishop is one of the best-loved American poets of the twentieth century. She won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award during her lifetime. Her Complete Poems and One Art: Collected Letters are published by Chatto & Windus. Alice Quinn has been Poetry Editor of The New Yorker since 1987 and is currently director of the Poetry Society of America. She is also deputy editor of the fiction desk and a professor of poetry at the Graduate School of the Arts at Columbia University, New York. Before joining the magazine she worked as an editor at Alfred A. Knopf publishers, where she edited the Knopf Poetry Series, as well as works of fiction by Ann Arensberg, Steven Millhauser and Celia Gittelson; and works of nonfiction, including Ann Douglas's 'The Feminization of American Culture'.