Grace Schulman was born in New York, New York, in 1935. Schulman is the author of several poetry collections, including
Without a Claim (Mariner Books, 2013);
The Broken String (Houghton Mifflin, 2007);
Days of Wonder: New and Selected Poems (Mariner Books, 2003), which was a finalist for the Phi Beta Kappa Award; and
Burn Down the Icons (Princeton University Press, 1976). Schulman, whom Harold Bloom has called “a vital and permanent poet,” is also the editor of
The Poems of Marianne Moore (Viking Press, 2003) and the author of
Marianne Moore: The Poetry of Engagement (University of Illinois Press, 1986). From 1973 to 1985, she directed the Unterberg Poetry Center at the 92nd Street Y, and from 1972 to 2006, she served as the poetry editor of
The Nation. (
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