Anne Stevenson

Born in Cambridge, England, on January 3, 1933, Anne Stevenson spent most of her early life in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and New Haven, Connecticut. Stevenson’s first book of poems, Living in America (Generation, 1965), was followed shortly thereafter by her first critical collection, Elizabeth Bishop (Twayne, 1966). She authored numerous other collections of poetry, including It Looks So Simple from a Distance (Poems on the Underground, 2010); Selected Poems (Library of America, 2008); Stone Milk (Bloodaxe, 2007); Poems 1955–2005 (Bloodaxe, 2006); and A Report from the Border: New & Rescued Poems (Bloodaxe, 2003). She lived in Durham City, England, until her death on September 14, 2020. (Source)