David Orr

David Orr is the poetry columnist for the New York Times Book Review. He is the winner of the Nona Balakian Prize from the National Book Critics Circle, and his writing has appeared in the New Yorker, Poetry, Slate, and the Yale Review. He holds a BA from Princeton and a JD from Yale Law School, and is Professor of the Practice at Cornell University. A native of South Carolina, David lives at present in Ithaca, New York.