Maxine Kumin (1925–2014) was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Up Country: Poems of New England (Harper & Row, 1972) won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1973. A close friend of Anne Sexton, she taught at Tufts, Columbia, and Princeton. Other collections include Connecting the Dots (W. W. Norton, 1996) and Still to Mow (Norton, 2007). She served as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1981 to 1982 and as Poet Laureate of New Hampshire from 1989 to 1994. Her honors include the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.
