Stephen is the author of eleven collections of poetry, including the Pulitzer Price winning Different Hours. Also renowned as an exceptional teacher and an inspiration to his audiences, he offers a unique perspective on the role of work in our lives. Stephen’s most recent book of poetry is The Insistence of Beauty: Poems (W.W. Norton & Co., 2003).

A faculty member in creative writing at Stockton since 1974 (he was first designated Trustee Fellow in the Arts, 1991 and again in 2000,) Dunn has also served as faculty and poet-in-residence at a wide variety of colleges and universities including, Columbia University, University of Washington, Princeton University and the University of Michigan.

Dunn's other awards include finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, 1996, Academy Award in Literature, 1995, the James Wright Prize, 1993, and National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, 1989. In addition to his books, Dunn has been published in such prestigious periodicals as:

• The Atlantic
• The Nation
• The New Republic
• The New Yorker, and
• The American Poetry Review

Stephen's poetry draws from the tapestry of individual experiences to the reflective rhetoric that surrounds it. His poems that specifically touch on work offer an opportunity for unique and powerful provocation especially when juxtaposed with more traditional business speakers. Stephen Dunn reading to business audiences from his book, Work and Love, touches audiences in a way that few other presenters can. He simply leaves them mesmerized.