Paul Mariani was a distinguished university professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he taught from 1968 until 2000, and then Boston College, where he taught from 2000 until his retirement in 2016, and where he served as university chair in English. He also served as poetry editor of America Magazine from 2000 to 2006. Mariani earned his bachelor’s degree in 1962 from Manhattan College, a master’s degree from Colgate University, and a PhD from the City University of New York (CUNY). Mariani is the author of nine poetry collections including most recently All That Will Be New (Slant Books, 2022); Ordinary Time (Slant Books 2020); and Epitaphs for the Journey (Cascade Books, 2012). He has also authored various books of prose including The Mystery of It All: The Vocation of Poetry in the Twilight of Modernity (Paraclete Press, 2019); Thirty Days: On Retreat with the Exercises of St. Ignatius (Viking, 2002); and God and the Imagination: On Poets, Poetry, and the Ineffable (University of Georgia Press, 2002). Mariani has additionally written six biographies including Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Life (Viking, 2008); The Broken Tower: A Life of Hart Crane (W. W. Norton, 1999), which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a source text for the feature-length film The Broken Tower (2012); and William Carlos Williams: A New World Naked (McGraw-Hill, 1981), which won the New Jersey Writers Award, was short-listed for an American Book Award, and was also named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. His other honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 2009, he received the John Ciardi Award for Lifetime Achievement in Poetry and, in 2022, the Flannery O’Connor Lifetime Achievement Award from Loyola University Chicago.