About
Award-winning poet whose best-known works include The Need to Hold Still and The Private Life. The former work received the National Book Award for Poetry in 1981.
Before Fame
She lived in Germany until age fifteen. After immigrating to the United States, she graduated from the University of Evansville.
Trivia
She was awarded the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Alive Together: New & Selected Poems.
Family Life
With her husband, Paul Mueller, she had two daughters.
Associated With
She was influenced by the work of Robert Browning.
