Stephen Dunn

Stephen Dunn
Stephen Dunn at the 2012 National Book Festival
Born	1939 Forest Hills, Queens, New York
Occupation	Professor and poet
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Hofstra University; Syracuse University.
Genre	Poetry
Notable awards	Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters

Stephen Dunn (born 1939) is an American poet and educator. Dunn has written fifteen collections of poetry. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 2001 collection, Different Hours and has received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Among his other awards are three National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships, Guggenheim Fellowship, and Rockefeller Foundations Fellowship. A collection of essays about Dunn's poetry was published in 2013.

He was born in Forest Hills, Queens, New York. Dunn completed his B.A. in English at Hofstra University and his M.A. in creative writing at Syracuse University. He has taught at Wichita State University, University of Washington, Columbia University, University of Michigan, Princeton University, and at .

Dunn had earlier lived in Port Republic, New Jersey, and now spends time at homes in Ocean City, New Jersey, and his wife's hometown of Frostburg, Maryland.