May Swenson

Women of Letters » Literature

Nationally renowned poet. Born in Logan, Utah, and educated at Utah State University, Swenson spent most of her adult life in New York City. During the course of her literary career, Swenson published twelve volumes of poetry and was awarded numerous prizes, including the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, the Bollingen Prize from Yale University, and an Award in Literature from the National Institute of Arts and Letters. Swenson also received fellowships from the Guggenheim, Ford, Rockefeller, and MacArthur Foundations as well as a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.