19 Facts About Fanny Howe

Fanny Howe has received praise and official recognition: she was awarded the 2009 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize by the Poetry Foundation.

Fanny Howe received the Gold Medal for Poetry from the Commonwealth Club of California.

Fanny Howe was a finalist for the 2015 International Booker Prize.

Fanny Howe has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Poetry Foundation, the California Arts Council, and the Village Voice.

Fanny Howe is professor emerita of Writing and Literature at the University of California, San Diego.

Fanny Howe's father became a colonel and served in Sicily and North Africa.

Fanny Howe's mother was an actress at the Abbey Theatre of Dublin for some time, before coming to the United States in 1935.

Fanny Howe wrote several plays to be performed there and at the Gate Theatre.

Fanny Howe's sisters are Susan Howe, who became a notable poet, and Helen Howe.

Later recalling her early ambitions to be a poet, Fanny Howe attended Stanford University for three years.

Fanny Howe was briefly attracted by the political activism, and communism.

Fanny Howe is one of the most widely read of American experimental poets.

Fanny Howe's writing career began during the 1960s with two paperback original "pulp" novels, published under the pseudonym Della Field.

Fanny Howe had long studied the writings of Edith Stein and Simone Weil, and sometimes pursues questions similar to theirs.

Fanny Howe converted to Catholicism at the age of 40.

Fanny Howe employs a sometimes fierce, always passionate, spareness in her lifelong parsing of the exchange between matter and spirit.

Fanny Howe's Selected Poems won the 2001 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize.

Fanny Howe was a judge for the 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize.

Fanny Howe has taught at Tufts University, Emerson College, Kenyon College, Columbia University, Yale University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Georgetown University.