Sharon Olds is the author of eight volumes of poetry, including  Satan Says (1980),  The Dead and the Living (1983), Blood, Tin, Straw (1999), The Gold Cell (1997), The Wellspring (1995), and others. Her poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry, The Atlantic Monthly, and The New York Times. Named New York State Poet Laureate (1998 – 2000), Olds teaches graduate poetry workshops at New York University and the writing workshop she helped found at a 900-bed state hospital for the severely disabled. She is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Science. Sharon Olds’ latest poetry collection is  One Secret Thing (2008).