Grace Schulman
Encyclopedia
Life
She studied at Bard CollegeBard College
Bard College, founded in 1860 as "St. Stephen's College", is a small four-year liberal arts college located in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.-Location:...
, and graduated from American University
American University
American University is a private, Methodist, liberal arts, and research university in Washington, D.C. The university was chartered by an Act of Congress on December 5, 1892 as "The American University", which was approved by President Benjamin Harrison on February 24, 1893...
in 1955, and from New York University
New York University
New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
with a Ph.D.
She is Distinguished Professor of English at Baruch College
Baruch College
Bernard M. Baruch College, more commonly known as Baruch College, is a constituent college of the City University of New York, located in the Flatiron district of Manhattan, New York City. With an acceptance rate of just 23%, Baruch is among the most competitive and diverse colleges in the nation...
, CUNY. She has taught poetry writing at Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
, Columbia University
Columbia University
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, Wesleyan University
Wesleyan University
Wesleyan University is a private liberal arts college founded in 1831 and located in Middletown, Connecticut. According to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Wesleyan is the only Baccalaureate College in the nation that emphasizes undergraduate instruction in the arts and...
, Bennington College
Bennington College
Bennington College is a liberal arts college located in Bennington, Vermont, USA. The college was founded in 1932 as a women's college and became co-educational in 1969.-History:-Early years:...
, and Warren Wilson College
Warren Wilson College
Warren Wilson College is a private four-year work college in the Swannanoa Valley, North Carolina, United States near Asheville. It is known for its curriculum of work, academics, and service, called "the Triad," which requires every student to work an on-campus job, perform at least one hundred...
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Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New Republic, Paris Review, Antaeus, Grand Street, the Yale Review, the Hudson Review, and the Kenyon Review.
She served as Poetry Editor of the Nation (1972–2006), and director of the Poetry Center, 92nd Street Y
92nd Street Y
92nd Street Y is a multifaceted cultural institution and community center located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, United States, at the corner of E. 92nd Street and Lexington Avenue. Its full name is 92nd Street Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association...
, 1973-1985.
She lives in New York with her husband, a scientist, Dr. Jerome L. Schulman.
Awards
- Guggenheim Fellowship for Poetry, 2004–2005
- Aiken Taylor Award for Poetry, 2003
- Distinguished Alumni Award, New York University Graduate Arts and Sciences, 2003
- Delmore Schwartz Award for Poetry, 1996.
- Poetry Fellowship from the New York Foundation of the Arts, 1995.
Poetry
- For That Day Only Sheep Meadow Press (Riverdale-on-Hudson, NY), 1994.
- Hemispheres Sheep Meadow Press (New York, NY), 1984.
- Burn Down the Icons. Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ), 1976.
Translator
- T. Carmi, At the Stone of Losses (poems), University of California Press (Berkeley, CA), 1983.
Anthologies
- The Best American Poetry 1995, edited by Richard Howard
- The Best of the Best American Poetry 1988-1998, edited by Harold Bloom,
- Pushcart Prizes 21 and 23.