Louise Glück (1943–2023) was born in New York City and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2020. She served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2003 to 2004. Her collection The Wild Iris (Ecco, 1992) won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1993, and Faithful and Virtuous Night (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014) won the National Book Award. Other collections include Ararat (1990), The Triumph of Achilles (1985), and Averno (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006). She was writer in residence at Yale University and a senior lecturer at Stanford. Her honors include a MacArthur Fellowship and the 2001 Bollingen Prize.
