The daughter of renowned
prima ballerina Maria Tallchief While an undergraduate at
Harvard University, Paschen received the Lloyd McKim Garrison Medal for poetry, and served as Poetry Editor of the Harvard Advocate. At
Oxford University, where she received her M.Phil. and D.Phil. degrees in 20th Century British and American Literature, she co-founded and co-edited
Oxford Poetry. Executive Director of the
Poetry Society of America from 1988 until 2001, she has edited numerous anthologies, including the New York Times bestsellers
Poetry Speaks. Her books of poetry include, most recently,
The Nightlife, as well as
Bestiary,
Infidelities, winner of the
Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize, and
Houses: Coasts. Her poems have been published in numerous magazines and anthologies including
The New Yorker, Poetry and
The Best American Poetry 2018. Her latest poetry book,
Tallchief, was a tribute to her mother and was released in October 2023. Her poem "Wi’-gi-e" was credited as inspiration for the title of the non-fiction book
Killers of the Flower Moon (2017), which contained her poem and was adapted into the 2023
film of the same name. Paschen teaches in the
MFA Writing Program at the
School of the Art Institute of Chicago. ==Awards==