Rae Armantrout, winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize, is one of the founding members of the West Coast group of Language poets, but stands apart from other Language poets in her lyrical voice and her commitment to the interior and the domestic. The author of several collections of widely anthologized poetry, Armantrout has also published a short memoir, True (1998). Her Collected Prose was published in 2007. A California native, Armantrout earned her BA at UC Berkeley–where she studied with Denise Levertov–and she received her MA at San Francisco State. She is a professor and director of the New Writing Series at UCSD.