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I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.

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I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.

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About Sharon Olds

Sharon Olds (born November 19, 1942) is an American poet. Olds won the first San Francisco Poetry Center Award in 1980, the 1984 National Book Critics Circle Award, and the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. She teaches creative writing at New York University and is a previous director of the Creative Writing Program at NYU.