Paul Muldoon, a native of County Armagh, Northern Ireland, has been hailed by The Times Literary Supplement as "the most significant English-language poet born since the Second World War." The poems in his recent book, A Thousand Things Worth Knowing, including a poem for SeamusHeaney, display his wit, ingenious word-play, and metaphysical bent in the service of strong feeling. In 2003, his book Moy Sand and Gravel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; he has also received the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Geoffrey Faber Prize. Muldoon has done translations of work by a number of important Irish-language poets. He has been Professor of Poetry at Oxford (1999-2004), and is currently the Howard G. B. Clark Professor in the Humanities at Princeton and poetry editor at The New Yorker. On the side, he writes songs for his current rock group, Wayside Shrines. He lives in New York City with his wife, the novelist Jean Hanff Korelitz; they have two children, Dorothy and Asher.
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