Life
She graduated from Kansas State University (1958) and from the University of Washington with a Ph.D. (1973). She is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington. She lives in Seattle, Washington.Awards
* 1978 awarded the NEA Creative Writing Fellowship for Poetry * 1985 American Book Award * 1988 Fulbright Program, Fulbright Creative Writing Fellowship, which took her to Yugoslavia * 1991 awarded the NEA Creative Writing Fellowship for Fiction * 1992 DuPont Distinguished Scholar in Residence * 1991 Rockefeller Fellowship to the Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Center in Lake Como, Italy * 1993 Fulbright Program, Fulbright Creative Writing Fellowship, which took her to Madagascar.Works
Poetry
*''Sidewalk Games' *''Webs and Weeds'' *''Out Here Even Crows Commit Suicide'' *''Lothar's Wife'' *''Sleeping with the moon: poems'' *''Travelling music'' *''Bone Flames: Poems'' *''Music from home: selected poems''Memoirs
*''A Long Way from St. Louie'' *''Over the Lip of the World: Among the Storytellers of Madagascar''Short stories
*''Driving under the cardboard pines and other stories'' *Jesus and Fat Tuesday: and other short storiesAnthologies
*''Best American Poetry 2001'' *''Oxford Anthology of African American Literature''''Ploughshares''
*''While Poets Are Watching'' *''Caution: This Woman Brakes for Memories '' *''Paris Subway Tango'' *''Crossing the Rubicon at Seventy'' *''Furlough''References
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