Gjertrud schnackenberg biography of rory
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Gjertrud Schnackenberg
American poet (born 1953)
Gjertrud Schnackenberg | |
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| Born | (1953-08-27) August 27, 1953 (age 71) Tacoma, Washington |
| Occupation | Poet, writer |
| Alma mater | Mount Holyoke College |
Gjertrud Schnackenberg (; born August 27, 1953, in Tacoma, Washington) is an American poet.[1][2]
Life
Schnackenberg graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1975.
She lectured at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Washington University in St. Louis, and was Writer-in-Residence at Smith College and visiting fellow at St. Catherine's College, Oxford, in 1997.[3]
The Throne of Labdacus, one of Schnackenberg's six books of poetry, focuses on the myth of Oedipus and the stories of ancient Greece.
In A Gilded Lapse of Time she devotes a section to the life, poetry, and death of Dante.
Schnackenberg has received the Rome Prize in Creative Literature from the American Academy in Rome and the Berlin Prize from the Ameri