Kathleen Spivack, née Drucker is an American poet and author.

Life

Spivack was born in

New York, NY New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on New York Harbor, one of the world's largest natural harb ...

, and was raised in North Bennington, VT. The eldest daughter of

Peter Drucker Peter Ferdinand Drucker (; ; November 19, 1909 – November 11, 2005) was an Austrian American management consultant, educator, and author, whose writings contributed to the philosophical and practical foundations of modern management theory. H ...

, she graduated from

Oberlin College Oberlin College is a Private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Oberlin, Ohio, United States. Founded in 1833, it is the oldest Mixed-sex education, coeducational lib ...

in 1959 and won a fellowship to study at Boston University with

Robert Lowell Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV (; March 1, 1917 – September 12, 1977) was an American poet. He was born into a Boston Brahmin family that could trace its origins back to the ''Mayflower''. His family, past and present, were important subjects ...

. Her writing has been published The New Yorker, Ploughshares, The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, Massachusetts Review, Virginia Quarterly, The Southern Review, Harvard Review, The Paris Review, The Kenyon Review, Agni and New Letters. She has held posts at the University of Paris VII-VIII, the University of Francoise Rabelais, Tours, the

University of Versailles University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (, ; UVSQ), also known as Paris-Saclay University (), is a French public university created in 1991, located in the department of Yvelines and, since 2002, in Hauts-de-Seine. It is a constituent ...

, and at the Ecole Superieure (Polytechnique). She was a Fulbright Senior Artist/Professor in Creative Writing in France (1993–95).

Books

*''Homage'', Wilderness House Press, 2024, *''Unspeakable Things'', New York: A. Knopf, 2016, *''With Robert Lowell and His Circle'', University Press of New England, 2012, *''A History of Yearning'', The Sow's Ear Poetry Review, 2010, *''Moments of Past Happiness'', Earthwinds Editions, 2007, *''The Beds We Lie In'', Scarecrow Press, 1986, *''The Honeymoon'', Graywolf Short Fiction Series, 1986, *''Swimmer in the Spreading Dawn'', Apple-wood Books, 1981

References

External links

*
With Robert Lowell and His Circle
', ''The Boston Globe'', Nov. 12, 2012. *
Swimmer in the Spreading Dawn
', ''The Boston Phoenix'', June 30, 1981 {{DEFAULTSORT:Spivack, Kathleen Living people Writers from New York City American women poets Oberlin College alumni Poets from New York (state) 21st-century American women Year of birth missing (living people)