The Call

Sharon Olds is an American poet and teacher. Her first collection of poems, Satan Says (University of Pittsburg Press, 1980), received the inaugural San Francisco Poetry Center Award. Her other collections include Stag’s Leap (Alfred A. Knopf, 2012), recipient of the Pulitzer Prize and the T.S. Eliot Prize. She holds numerous honors including a National Endowment for the Arts grant and a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship.