Sharon Dolin is the author of six poetry collections: Manual for Living (2016) and Whirlwind (2012), both from the University of Pittsburgh Press; Serious Pink (Marsh Hawk Press, 2015 reissue); Burn and Dodge (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008), winner of the AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry; Realm of the Possible (Four Way Books, 2004); and Heart Work (Sheep Meadow Press, 1995). She received a 2016 PEN/Heim Translation Fund grant for her translation from of Gemma Gorga’s Book of Minutes. “The Meal” is from her work-in-progress, a Selected Poems of Gemma Gorga. She lives in New York City and directs Writing About Art in Barcelona each June.