Jean Valentine is the author of eleven books of poetry, including Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems 1965–2003, awarded the 2004 National Book Award for Poetry; Little Boat (2007); and Break the Glass (Copper Canyon Press, 2010). The recipient of the 2009 Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets, she has taught at Sarah Lawrence College, New York University, and Columbia. Valentine lives in New York City.

Photograph by Max Greenstreet.