Rita Dove is a multi-award winning American poet, playwright and creative writing teacher whose chief honour was serving as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress between 1993 and 1995. She also won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, being only the second African-American to do so. She was born Rita Frances Dove on the 28th August 1952 in Akron, Ohio, ...
Kay Ryan is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and one-time Poet Laureate of the United States. Additionally she has spent time as an English teacher at the College of Marin, Kentfield. She was born on the 21st September 1945 in San Jose, California. She was educated in the area of the San Joaquin Valley and the Mojave Desert. She achieved both Bachelors’ and Masters’ degrees at ...
Natasha Trethewey is an American prize-winning poet who also had the honour of serving as United States Poet Laureate for two terms, plus Poet Laureate for her home state of Mississippi. She is an English and Creative Writing Professor at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. She was born on the 26th April 1966 in Gulfport, Mississippi. Her parents were actually deemed to be illegally married ...
Robert Penn Warren was a triple Pulitzer Prize-winning writer. Over a thirty-year period he won one for a novel called All the King’s Men (in 1947) and two for his poetry (1958 and 1979). This feat has never been repeated. Additionally he was a much-respected literary critic who became one of the founding members of a movement in the middle of the 20th ...
Mona Van Duyn was a multi-award winning American poet whose most prestigious honour came in 1992 when she was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. As well as being a prolific writer she served the University College of Washington University for many years as a lecturer and only stopped doing so when she retired in 1990. She was born ...
