She splits her time between Cambridge, Massachusetts, Montpelier, Vermont, and Berkeley, California. Glück serves as the Frederick Iseman Professor in the Practice of Poetry at Yale University and as a professor of English at Stanford University. Scholars have also focused on her construction of poetic personas and the relationship, in her poems, between autobiography and classical myth. In doing so, they have become known for frank expressions of sadness and isolation. Thematically, her poems have illuminated aspects of trauma, desire, and nature. Glück is often described as an autobiographical poet her work is known for its emotional intensity and for frequently drawing on mythology or nature imagery to meditate on personal experiences and modern life. In addition to being an author, she has taught poetry at several academic institutions. She attended Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University but did not obtain a degree. She began to suffer from anorexia nervosa while in high school and later overcame the illness. Glück was born in New York City and raised on Long Island. From 2003 to 2004, she was Poet Laureate of the United States. Her other awards include the Pulitzer Prize, National Humanities Medal, National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Bollingen Prize. She won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, whose judges praised "her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal". Louise Elisabeth Glück ( / ɡ l ɪ k/ GLIK born April 22, 1943) is an American poet and essayist.
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