Stephanie Burt is the author of fourteen books of poetry and literary criticism, including Don't Read Poetry and The Poem Is You. A past judge for the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, she serves as a board member of the National Book Critics Circle, is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and writes regularly for the New York Times Book Review, the New Yorker, the London Review of Books, the New York Review of Books, Raritan, and other publications. She is the Donald and Katherine Loker Professor of English at Harvard University.