Gjertrud SchnackenbergGjertrud Schnackenberg was born in Tacoma, Washington, in 1953. Her awards include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rome Prize in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Lettes, the American Academy in Berlin, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She has been a Christensen Visiting Fellow at St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and a Visiting Scholar at the Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanites. The Throne of Labdacus received the 2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry, and Heavenly Questions received the 2011 Griffin International Prize for Poetry. Read More Read Less