Eckart, Gabriele

Gabriele Eckart was born in East Germany in 1954 and earned a master's-level degree in philosophy and aesthetics in 1976. The first of her three major collections of poetry appeared in 1979. She has also published a collection of interviews with workers (which was banned by East German censors) and a novella. She immigrated to the United States in 1987 and now lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Wayne Kvam is a professor of English at Kent State University. His most recent book is a translation and edition, "Conjurations: The Poems of Sarah Kirsch" (1985).