Dennis Schmitz

Dennis Schmitz was raised in Iowa and earned degrees at Loras College and the University of Chicago. He is the author of nine books of poetry, including About Night: Selected and New Poems (Field). He has received numerous awards for his work, including the Shelley Memorial Award, two Pushcart Prizes, the 92Y Discovery award, the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He taught for over thirty years at Sacramento State University and served as a Poet Laureate of Sacramento.