She received her B.A. from
Northwestern University in 1967, and returned there to teach in 1975. She won
Fulbright and
Woodrow Wilson fellowships to do graduate work at the
Free University of Berlin and
Johns Hopkins University. She was awarded the
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 1985 and a National Humanities Center Fellowship in 2005. Kinzie won the
Folger Shakespeare Library's 2008
O. B. Hardison, Jr. Poetry Prize, the only major American prize to recognize a poet for teaching as well as writing. ==Bibliography==