- Was an English professor at Stanford University from 1986 to 1993. She also has teaching experience at Swarthmore, Columbia, Brandeis, Rutgers, Cornell, San Jose State University.
- She declined the American National Medal of the Arts by the National Endowment Foundation in 1997 for her services to literature.
- Following the death of her husband, she has been in a relationship with novelist Michelle Cliff since 1976.
- Graduated from Radcliffe College.
- W.H. Auden chose her first book for the Yale Younger Poets prize.
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