Charles Simic, fifteenth United States Poet Laureate, is also an essayist and translator. His 1990 collection, The World Doesn’t End: Prose Poems, was awarded the Pullitzer Prize, and he has received numerous other literary honors. Born in Belgrade, Simic now lives in New Hampshire, where he is the professor Emeritus of American Literature and creative writing at the University of New Hampshire. He is a graduate of OPRF High School.