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Alan Shapiro, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, has published ten books of poetry, most recently, Old War, winner of the 2009 Ambassador Book Award. He has been the winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award, an LA Times Book Award in poetry, and been a finalist in poetry and nonfiction for the National Books Critics Circle Award. In 2012, he will publish two books: Night of the Republic, a book of poems, from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and Broadway Baby, a novel, from Algonquin Books. A recipient of two awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation, the O.B. Hardison Jr. Poetry Prize from the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington D.C., the Sarah Teasdale Award from Wellesley College, and an award in literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Shapiro teaches at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he lives with his wife, Callie Warner, and their three children.