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J.D. McClatchy is the author of six books of poetry: Mercury Dressing (Alfred A. Knopf, 2009); Hazmat (2002) which was nominated for the 2003 Pulitzer Prize; Ten Commandments (1998); The Rest of the Way (1992); Stars Principal (1986); and Scenes from Another Life (1981). His selected poems, Division of Spoils, appeared in England in 2003. He has also published three collections of essays: American Writers at Home (2004); Twenty Questions (1998); and White Paper (1989); has edited nearly twenty books, including The Whole Difference: Selected Writings of Hugo von Hofmannsthal (2008), Horace, The Odes: New Translation by Contemporary Poets (2003), The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry (1996), The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry (1990; second edition, 2003), and Poets on Painters (1988); and edited as well the acclaimed Voice of the Poet series for Random House AudioBooks. McClatchy has written many texts for musical settings, including thirteen opera libretti, for such composers as William Schuman, Ned Rorem, Lorin Maazel, Lowell Liebermann, Elliot Goldenthal, Giorgio Battistelli, and Michael Dellaira, performed in such opera houses as Covent Garden, La Scala, the Metropolitan Opera, and the Los Angeles Opera, as well as on television and DVD. His honors include an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He has also been one of the New York Public Library Lions, and received the 2000 Connecticut Governor’s Arts Award. He received the 1991 fellowship from the Academy of American Poets, and served as an Academy Chancellor from 1996 until 2003. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and currently serves as its president. He is Professor of English at Yale University, and editor of The Yale Review. He lives in Stonington, Connecticut.