Louise Gluck (1943-2023) born in New York City, raised on Long Island, married twice, one child Noah Dranow, who is a Sommelier. Her family was of Russian Jewish and Hungarian descent. Her father invented the x-acto knife. She had anorexia as a teen, an effort to assert independence from her mother. Seven years of psychotherapy helped her recover. She won many prizes for her poetry. She is an autobiographical poet. Thematically, her poems have illuminated aspects of trauma, desire, and nature. She went to Sarah Lawrence and Columbia but didn't get a degree. she studied with poets Léonie Adams and Stanley Kunitz. She worked as a secretary and published her first book of poems in 1968. She taught at Goddard College, Williams College, Boston College, University of North Carolina--Greensboro, Iowa Writers Workshop, Yale, and Stanford. She had a child and the relationship with Keith Monley lasted until he was 2. They didn't speak for 20 years, but later became friends. Then she ma...