Anne Stevenson graduated from the University of Michigan with a Major Hopwood Award for poetry in 1954. In 2007, she won The Poetry Foundation’s Neglected Masters Award and the Lannan Prize. Her Collected Poems 1995–2005 appeared from Bloodaxe Books in 2005; Selected Poems from The Library of America in 2008. Bloodaxe published her latest collection, Astonishment, in 2012.