Born in Massachusetts, Gail Mazur studied with Robert Lowell and is the author of several collections, including They Can't Take That Away from Me (University of Chicago Press, 2001), a finalist for the National Book Award, and Zeppo's First Wife: New and Selected Poems (University of Chicago Press, 2005), which won the Massachusetts Book Award. Later collections include Figures in a Landscape (2011) and Land's End: New and Selected Poems (2020). In 1973 she founded the Blacksmith House Poetry Series in Cambridge, directing it for twenty-nine years. She taught at Emerson College and Boston University.
