10 Facts About Gjertrud Schnackenberg

Gjertrud Schnackenberg lectured at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Washington University in St Louis, and was Writer-in-Residence at Smith College and visiting fellow at St Catherine's College, Oxford, in 1997.

Gjertrud Schnackenberg has received the Rome Prize in Creative Literature from the American Academy in Rome and the Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin.

Gjertrud Schnackenberg has been awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and in 1987 she received a Guggenheim grant.

Gjertrud Schnackenberg has been a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1996.

Gjertrud Schnackenberg won an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1998, and in 2001 she won the LA Times Book Prize in Poetry for The Throne of Labdacus.

Gjertrud Schnackenberg was married to the American philosopher Robert Nozick until his death in 2002.

Gjertrud Schnackenberg has been awarded the Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin, and the Rome Prize in Creative Literature from the American Academy in Rome, as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Radcliffe Institute, and the Guggenheim Foundation.

The poetry of Gjertrud Schnackenberg has always seemed to be written white-on-black, not only because her lines have the tuned quality of work that has absorbed how sheer is the drop from white to black, from utterance to nothing, but because the well-springs of her art seem connected at some profound level to the witnessing of light against dark or dark against light.

Gjertrud Schnackenberg stands out among younger American poets for her ambition, in the best sense of the word.

Gjertrud Schnackenberg's verse is strong, dense and musical, anchored in the pentameter even when it veers into irregularity; behind it are formidable masters, Robert Lowell most notably, but Yeats and Auden.