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Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jorie Graham was born in New York City in 1950, the daughter of a journalist father and sculptor Beverly Pepper, whose work is represented in the Reynolda House fine art collection. Raised in Rome, Italy and educated in French schools, Graham studied philosophy at the Sorbonne before attending New York University as an undergraduate to study filmmaking. She received an MFA in poetry from the University of Iowa. She is the author of numerous collections of poetry, most recently Sea Change (2008), Never (2002), Swarm (2000), and The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974–1994. Graham has also edited two anthologies, Earth Took of Earth: 100 Great Poems of the English Language and The Best American Poetry. Her many honors include a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship and the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. The former Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets from 1997 to 2003, she is currently the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University.