Norman Dubie is a Regents' professor at Arizona State University. A practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism whose work has been translated into thirty languages, Dubie has been the poetry editor for The Iowa Review and the director of the graduate poetry workshop at the University of Iowa. Regularly published in the New Yorker and other magazines, Dubie is a highly regarded and widely anthologized poet. He has won the Bess Hokin Award of the Modern Poetry Association and fellowships from The Ingram Merrill Foundation, The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

About Ordinary Mornings of a Coliseum:

"The voices of Dubie's monologues are full of astonishing intimacy."
—The Washington Post Book World

"Norman Dubie is one of our premier poets. The reader new to Mr. Dubie's work is likely to be struck first by the vigor of his forms and the bravery of his language."
—The New York Times

"Norman Dubie has ever been a free of the typical apprentice need to imitate. His published work has always been distinctly his own, characterized by an unmistakable voice and a nearly inimitable combination of techniques."
—The Georgia Review