The poet, critic, and translator Susan Stewart is the Avalon Foundation University Professor in
the Humanities and Professor of English at Princeton University.
She is the author of many books of prose, including On Longing, Poetry and the Fate of the Senses, The Open Studio: Essays in Art and Aesthetics, and The Poet's Freedom. Her books of poetry include Columbarium, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and her recent Cinder: New and Selected Poems. She is a former MacArthur Fellow, Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Berlin Prize Fellow, and member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.