Life

She is the son of Nathan and Sadie Goldstein, She graduated from Temple University

Temple University

Temple University is a comprehensive public research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Originally founded in 1884 by Dr. Russell Conwell, Temple University is among the nation's largest providers of professional education and prepares the largest body of professional...

 in 1961, and Goddard College

Goddard College

Goddard College is a private, liberal arts college located in Plainfield, Vermont, offering undergraduate and graduate degree programs. Goddard College currently operates on an intensive low-residency model...

, Master’s degree in 1977.

She married her first husband, Philip Terranova, in 1961.

In 1966, she was appointed the Margaret Banister writer-in-residence at Sweet Briar College

Sweet Briar College

Sweet Briar College is a liberal arts women's college in Sweet Briar, Virginia, about north of Lynchburg, Virginia. The school's Latin motto translates as: "She who has earned the rose may bear it."...

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In 1973, she worked as manuscript editor for J.B. Lippincott & Co.. She taught at Temple University

Temple University

Temple University is a comprehensive public research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Originally founded in 1884 by Dr. Russell Conwell, Temple University is among the nation's largest providers of professional education and prepares the largest body of professional...

, until 1987, when she began teaching at the Community College of Philadelphia

Community College of Philadelphia

The Community College of Philadelphia is a community college in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The main campus is located at 1700 Spring Garden Street in a building that was the former Philadelphia Mint...

. She led workshops at the 1991 Rutgers University Writers Conference, and the 1992 Writers’ Center at the Chautauqua Institution

Chautauqua Institution

The Chautauqua Institution is a non-profit adult education center and summer resort located on 750 acres in Chautauqua, New York, 17 miles northwest of Jamestown in the western part of New York State...

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“The Choice,” a selection from Damages (Copper Canyon Press

Copper Canyon Press

Copper Canyon Press is an independent, non-profit small press, specializing in the publication of poetry and located in the picturesque town of Port Townsend, Washington. Since 1972, the Press has published poetry exclusively and has established an international reputation for its commitment to...

, 1996), appeared throughout Philadelphia as a part of the Poetry Society’s Poetry in Motion (arts program)

Poetry in Motion (arts program)

Poetry in Motion is an arts program collaborative which displays poems by prominent authors in advertising space on the buses and subways. The program was launched by New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the Poetry Society of America, based on the success of the Streetfare Journal...

. “The River Bathers,” from Damages, was featured on illustrated posters by the Public Poetry Project.

She lives in Philadelphia.

Awards

• 1992 Robert Frost Fellowship in Poetry, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference
  Bread Loaf Writers' Conference
  The Bread Loaf Writers' Conference is a writers' conference held every summer at the Bread Loaf Inn, near Bread Loaf Mountain, east of Middlebury, Vermont...
  
  
• 1990 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, chosen by Rita Dove
  Rita Dove
  Rita Frances Dove is an American poet and author. From 1993-1995 she served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, a position now popularly known as "U.S. Poet Laureate"...
  
  
• “The Stand-up Shtel” took first prize in the Anna Davidson Rosenberg Competition for poems on the Jewish experience.

External links

• Taking Tap at Miss Paterson’s. Broadcast by New American Radio, 1990.