Marya Zaturenska

Marya Zaturenska (September 12, 1902 – January 19, 1982) was an American lyric poet, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1938.

Life

She was born in Kyiv and her family emigrated to the United States, when she was eight and lived in New York. Like many immigrants, she worked in a clothing factory during the day, but was able to attend night high school. She was an outstanding student and won a scholarship to Valparaiso University; she later transferred to the University of Wisconsin–Madison, receiving a degree in library science. She met her husband, the prize-winning poet Horace Gregory there; they married in 1925. Her two children were Patrick and Joanna Gregory. She wrote eight volumes of poetry, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Cold Morning Sky, and she edited six anthologies of poetry.

Her work appeared in The New York Times, Poetry Magazine,

Awards

1938 Pulitzer Prize

Works

Poetry

Threshold and Hearth. The Macmillan company. 1934.

Cold Morning Sky. Macmillan. 1937.

The Listening Landscape. Macmillan, New York. 1941

The Golden Mirror. New York: The Macmillan company. 1944.

Selected poems. Grove Press. 1954.

Terraces of Light. Grove Press. 1960

Collected Poems. Viking Press. 1965.

The Hidden Waterfall: poems. Vanguard Press. 1974.

Robert S. Phillips, ed. (2002). New selected poems of Marya Zaturenska. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 978-0-8156-0717-5.

Editor

Christina Georgina Rossetti (1970). Marya Zaturenska (ed.). Selected poems of Christina Rossetti. Macmillan.

Non-fiction

Mary Beth Hinton, ed. (2002). The diaries of Marya Zaturenska, 1938-1944. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 978-0-8156-0714-4.

Marya Zaturenska; Horace Gregory (1946). A History of American poetry, 1900-1940. Harcourt, Brace and Co.

Marya Zaturenska, (1949). Christina Rossetti, A Portrait With Background, The MacMillan Company.