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Grace Schulman | |
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Born | Grace Jan Waldman 1935 (age 89–90) New York City, U.S. |
Occupation | Poet |
Education | Bard College American University New York University (PhD) |
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graceschulman.com |
Grace Schulman (born Grace Jan Waldman; 1935 in New York City) is an American poet.
Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, [1] the New Republic, Paris Review, [2] Antaeus, Grand Street, the Yale Review, the Hudson Review, Atlantic Monthly, and the Kenyon Review.
Schulman studied at Bard College, and graduated from American University in 1955, and from New York University with a Ph.D. in 1971. [3]
From 1972 to 2006 Schulman served as Poetry Editor of The Nation [4] and from 1973 to 1985 as director of the Poetry Center, 92nd Street Y, where she founded a contest then called "Discovery—The Nation." [5]
She is Distinguished Professor of English at Baruch College, City University of New York (CUNY), and has taught poetry writing at Princeton University, Columbia University, Wesleyan University, Bennington College, and Warren Wilson College.