Dunn is the author of twelve collections of poetry, including Different Hours, for which he won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, Loosestrife, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, and Local Time, winner of The National Poetry Series. He is the recipient of numerous awards for his writing, including the Academy Award in Literature from The American Academy of Arts and Letters, fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations and three National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships.

Dunn will be serving this year as guest editor of "Nightsun," the Frostburg State University-published literary annual of contemporary poetry, fiction and interviews. He is distinguished professor of Creative Writing at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey.