Stevenson, Anne Katharine

(1933- )

   The daughter of the American philosopher C.L. Stevenson, she was born in Cambridge, England. She completed her education at the University of Michigan and returned in the 1960s where has remained, living high up in the County of Durham, and spending much time in Wales. During a varied career, she has worked as a teacher both in Britain and America, held the post of Compton Fellow in Creative Writing at the University of Dundee, and was Arts Council writer-in-residence at Reading. For two years she was an arts fellow at Oxford University and in 1981 became Northern Arts Literary Fellow. She is a member of the Arts Council literature panel. Her biography of Sylvia Plath, Bitter Fame, was published in 1989. Some of her poetry publications: Living in America, 1965. Reversals, 1970. Enough of Green, 1977. The Fiction Makers, 1985. The Other House, 1990. The Collected Poems 1955-1995, 1996. Poems 1955-2005, 2005. Some of her poems: "After Her Death," "Attitudes and Beliefs," "By the Boat House, Oxford," "North Sea off Carnoustie," "Poem to My Daughter," "Respectable House," "Willow Song."

   Sources: Anne Stevenson's Poetry: Guardian Unlimited Books, By Genre, Border Crossings (http://books.guardian.co.uk/poetry/features/0,12887,1317578,00.html). Early Ripening: American Women's Poetry Now. Marge Piercy, ed. Pandora Press, 1987. No More Masks. 2nd Edition. Florence Howe, ed. HarperCollins Publishers, 1993. The Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry. 11th ed. The Columbia Granger's World of Poetry, Columbia University Press, 2005 (http://www.columbiagrangers.org). The Faber Book of 20th Century Women's Poetry. Fleur Adcock, ed. Faber and Faber, 1987. The Hopwood Antholog y: Five Decades of American Poetry. Harry Thomas and Steven Lavine, eds. University of Michigan Press, 1981. The Oxford Book of the Sea. Jonathan Raban, ed. Oxford University Press, 1992. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 6th edition. Margaret Drabble, ed. Oxford University Press, 2000. Who's Who. London: A & C Black, 2005.