Born in Boston in 1956, Julie Agoos is the author of four collections of poetry: Above the Land, winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize (selected by James Merrill); Calendar Year; Property, recipient of the Brooklyn College Creative Achievement Award, and Echo System. She taught for eight years in the creative writing program at Princeton University, and is Professor of English and coordinator of the MFA program in poetry at Brooklyn College/CUNY. She lives in Nyack, New York.
