Life
She was adopted and raised in
Chestnut Hill, attending Beaver Country Day School. She graduated from
Bennington College in 1937. She edited the literary magazine
Chimera from 1943 to 1947 and lived in
Greenwich Village. In 1947 she married the poet
William Jay Smith and had two sons, David and Gregory. After divorcing in "the mid-1960s", she lived in
Pownal, Vermont. In 1971, she signed a letter protesting proposed cuts to the School of the Arts,
Columbia University. Her work was published in:
Atlantic,
Chicago Review,
New Directions,
New Republic,
New Yorker,
New York Times Book Review,
Saturday Review,
Southern Review,
University of Kansas Review,
Virginia Quarterly Review, and
Yale Review. ==Awards==
Works
• • • • • • Poetry • • • • • • • Moving, Elysian Press (New York, NY), 1983. • Fiction • • Editor • • • The Road Commissioner and Other Stories, illustrated by Gregory Smith, Stinehour Press, 1983. Anthologies • New Poems by American Poets, Ballantine (New York, NY), 1957 • Modern Verse in English, Macmillan, 1958 • Modern American Poetry, Harcourt (New York, NY), 1962 • ''Poet's Choice'', Dial (New York, NY), 1962 • Modern Poets, McGraw (New York City), 1963 • Of Poetry and Power, Basic Books (New York City), 1964 • The Girl in the Black Raincoat, edited by George Garrett, Duell, Sloane & Pierce, 1966 • The Marvelous Light, edited by Helen Plotz, Crowell (New York, NY), 1970 • Inside Outer Space, edited by Robert Vas Dias, Anchor Books (New York, NY), 1970. ==Reviews==