George Garrett is the author or editor of more than forty books, including the poetry collection Days of Our Lives Lie in Fragments: New and Old Poems, 1957–1997. He has won numerous awards, among them the Rome Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the T.S. Eliot Award, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Short Fiction. He is Hoyns Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Virginia.
