C.K. Williams

C.K. Williams is the author of ten books of poetry, including The Singing, winner of the National Book Award, Repair, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Award, and Flesh and Blood, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. His Collected Poems was published in 2006. Williams has also published a memoir, Misgivings: My Mother, My Father, Myself, and has published translations of Sophocles' Women of Trachis, Euripides' Bacchae, and poems of Francis Ponge, among others. A book of essays, Poetry and Consciousness, appeared in 1998. Recently he was awarded the Twentieth Annual Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, an honor given to an American poet in recognition of extraordinary accomplishment. Among his honors are awards in literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the PEN/Voelcker Career Achievement Award, and fellowships from the Lila Wallace Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment of the Arts. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2003, and teaches in the Writing Program at Princeton University.