Ms.
Gjertrud Schnackenberg
Independent
Writer (poet)
Area
Humanities and Arts
Specialty
Literature
Elected
1996
Poet. Began writing poetry at Mount Holyoke College and as an undergraduate earned a reputation as a poetic prodigy, twice winning the Glascock Award for Poetry. Her first two books of poetry, Portraits and Elegies (1982) and The Lamplit Answer(1985), established her as one of the strongest of the New Formalists and confirmed her early promise. The book-length poem The Throne of Labdacus (2000), a retelling of the Oedipus myth from the points of view of Apollo and a slave, was named a New York Times Book Review Notable Book and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry. Schnackenberg’s many honors and awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Radcliffe Institute. She is the recipient of the Rome Prize of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She has been a Visiting Scholar at the Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and Humanities and a Christensen Visiting Fellow at St. Catherine’s College in Oxford.
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