Carolyn Kizer was born in Spokane, Washington. She married Charles Stimson Bullitt in 1948, and they were divorced in 1954. In 1975, Kizer married John Marshall Woodbridge. She has three children, Ashley Ann, Scott, and Jill Hamilton, all from her first marriage. Kizer took her B.A. degree from Sarah Lawrence College in 1945 and did graduate work at Columbia University (1945-1946) and the University of Washington in Seattle (1946-1947). Her numerous literary activities have included founding Poetry Northwest, a journal that she edited from its beginning in 1959 until 1965; directing literary programs for the National Endowment for the Arts from 1966-1970; and serving as a U.S. State Department specialist in Pakistan during 1964-1965. She has also been a professor of poetry in the Iowa Writers Workshop (1976), McGuffey Lecturer and poet-in-residence at Ohio University (1975), poet-in-residence at the University of North Carolina (1970-1974), a lecturer at Barnard College (1972), acting director of the graduate...