Louise Gluck was born in 1943 in New York. She is divorced with one son. She started her teaching career in 1971 at Goddard College, Vermont. At present she is a Professor at Williams College and lives in Cambridge. She is the author of seven collections of poems and a volume of essays. She has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the William Carlos Williams Award, the Bobbitt National Poetry Prize, and the Ambassador's Award for her poetry, as well as the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for Nonfiction. Vita Nova won the first annual New Yorker Readers Award. Louise Gluck has been appointed Poet Laureate in the USA.
