• Founding editor and publisher of Ausable Press • author of six books of poetry • co-author of best-selling book about poetry, The Practice of Poetry (sold 50,000 copies) • taught at Princeton University • MFA from University of Iowa • received a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship and an NEA fellowship • poetry influenced by her studies of Zen Buddhism (at Zen Mountain Monastery in NY) • married to novelist Russell Banks • fellow writers very supportive of her work: Dove; Jarman; Harrison; Komunyakaa; Ostricker; Stern; C.K. Williams
