Learn more about her award winning novel, In the Context of Love. Sienkiewicz is a writer, poet, and artist. She is the author of over 15 books of poetry and essays. Pastan served as Poet Laureate of Maryland from 1991 to 1995 and was on the staff of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference for 20 years. Pastan’s many awards include the Dylan Thomas award, a Pushcart Prize, the Bess Hokin Prize from Poetry, the Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, and the Ruth Lily Poetry Prize, in 2003.
She is interested in the anxieties that exist under the surface of everyday life. Since the early 1970s, Pastan has produced quiet lyrics that focus on themes like marriage, parenting, and grief. In her senior year at Radcliffe College, Pastan won the Mademoiselle poetry prize (Sylvia Plath was the runner-up). Poet Linda Pastan was raised in New York City but has lived for most of her life in Potomac, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, DC.
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