Schnackenberg, Gjertrud

Gjertrud Schnackenberg was born in Tacoma, Washington, in 1953. "The Throne of Labdacus" (FSG, 2000) received the "Los Angeles Times" Book Prize in Poetry. She graduated from Mount Holyoke, and was awarded an honorary doctorate from that college in 1985. She has also received the Lavan Younger Poets Award (judged by Robert Fitzgerald) from the Academy of American Poets, and the Rome Prize in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.