11 Facts About Carolyn Kizer

Carolyn Ashley Kizer was an American poet of the Pacific Northwest whose works reflect her feminism.

Carolyn Kizer was born in Spokane, Washington, the daughter of a socially prominent Spokane couple.

Carolyn Kizer's father, Benjamin Hamilton Kizer, who was 45 when she was born, was a successful attorney.

Carolyn Kizer's mother, Mabel Ashley Kizer, was a professor of biology who had received her doctorate from Stanford University.

Carolyn Kizer was once asked if she agreed with a description of her father as someone who "came across as supremely structured, intelligent, polite but always somewhat remote".

Carolyn Kizer then moved back to Washington state, and in 1946 married Charles Stimson Bullitt, an attorney from a wealthy and influential Seattle family, with whom she had three children; Fred Nemo, Jill Bullitt, and Ashley Bullitt.

Carolyn Kizer's husband was the son of Dorothy Bullitt, who founded the Bullitt Foundation and the King Broadcasting Company.

Carolyn Kizer has been a visiting writer at literary conferences and events across the country, as well as in Dublin, Ireland, and Paris.

Carolyn Kizer was a member of the faculty of the Iowa Writer's Workshop.

Carolyn Kizer was appointed to the post of Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 1995, but resigned three years later to protest the absence of women and minorities on the governing board.

Carolyn Kizer died on October 9,2014, in Sonoma, California, due to effects of dementia.