:: Gerald Stern is the recipient of many awards, including the National Book Award, the Lamont Prize, a Guggenheim, three NEA awards, a fellowship from The Academy of Arts and Letters and the Ruth Lilly Prize. He taught at many universities, including Columbia University, New York University, Sarah Lawrence College and the University of Pittsburgh; until his retirement in 1995, he taught at the Writer's Workshop in Iowa City. He now lives in Lambertville, New Jersey. He is the author of What I Can't Bear Losing: Notes from a Life