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Gjertrud 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 Letters, 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.
"PPRAISE FOR SCHNACKENBERG ""What a superb poet she is, and what a range of original sensibility, what private music, in the less well-worn emotions."" -Nadine Gordimer For Supernatural Love (2000, FSG): ""A visionary encounter with 'the source of poetry.'"" -Rosanna Warren ""Profound, sweeping, emotional...One thinks of Blake's insight, 'Eternity is in love with the productions of time.'"" -Stephen Yenser For Heavenly Questions (2011, FSG): ""There is no one in her generation to equal Schnackenberg's control of the blank-verse line, nor to match her technical abilities..."" -Cynthia Zarin ""...the most powerful elegy written in English by a poet in recent memory, and it is a triumphant consummation of Schnackenberg's own work."" -Karl Kirchwey"
