American writer (born 1942)
Ann Lauterbach |
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| Born | 1942 |
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| Nationality | American |
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- Poet
- essayist
- art critic
- professor
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Ann Lauterbach (born 1942)[1] is an American poet, essayist, art critic, and professor.
Early life
Lauterbach was born and raised in New York City, and earned her B.A. from the University of Wisconsin. She lived in London for eight years, working in publishing and for art institutions, including London's Thames and Hudson art publishing house. On her return to the U.S., she worked in art galleries in New York before she began teaching.[2]
Poetry
Lauterbach’s most recent poetry collections are Door (2023) and Spell (2018), both published by Penguin Books. Lauterbach’s poems have been published in numerous literary journals and magazines including Conjunctions, and in anthologies including American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry (W.W. Norton, 2009) and American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Where Lyric Meets Language (Wesleyan University Press, 2002).[1]
Teaching
She has taught at Brooklyn College, Columbia University, the Iowa Writers Workshop, Princeton University, and at the City College of New York and Graduate Center of CUNY. Since 1991 she has taught at Bard College, and is currently a David and Ruth Schwab Professor of Languages and Literature there, where she teaches and co-directs the Writing Division of the M.F.A. program, and lives in Germantown, New York.[3][4] As an art critic, she has educated at the Yale School of Art, Yale University.[5]
Honors
Her honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the New York State Foundation for the Arts.[3][6]
