Jane Kenyon (1947–1995) was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and earned a BA and an MA from the University of Michigan. She married the poet Donald Hall and settled at his family's Eagle Pond Farm in Wilmot, New Hampshire. Her collections include From Room to Room (Alice James Books, 1978), The Boat of Quiet Hours (Graywolf, 1986), Let Evening Come (Graywolf, 1990), and Constance (Graywolf, 1993). She also translated Twenty Poems of Anna Akhmatova (Ally Press, 1985). She was named Poet Laureate of New Hampshire in 1995 and died of leukemia that year. The posthumous Otherwise: New and Selected Poems appeared from Graywolf in 1996.
