Mary Oliver

Mary Oliver is the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize (for American Primitive) and the National Book Award. She has taught at Sweet Briar, Pennington and other universities and is widely anthologized twice in Best American Poetry, The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, three times in Best American Essays. A Guggenheim Fellow and recipient of four honorary doctorates, she lives in Provincetown, MA. Oliver has published three volumes of prose and thirty of poetry, the most recent Dog Songs in 2013. "Seven White Butterflies" was first published in Shenandoah 45/3.