Hayden Carruth is the award-winning author of more than 30 books of poetry, criticism, essays, a novel and two anthologies. In 1992, he received the National Book Critics' Circle Award for his Collected Shorter Poems and in 1997 he won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in poetry for his book, Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey. Among the other awards Carruth has won are the Lenore Marshall Award, Vermont Governor's Medal, Carl Sandburg Award, the Ruth Lily Prize, and the Lannon Literary Award. He has also received fellowships from the Bollingen and Guggenheim Foundations and the NEA. Carruth has served as editor of Poetry, as poetry editor of Harper's, and for 20 years as the advisory editor of The Hudson Review. |