Grace Schulman received the Frost Medal for Distinguished Lifetime Achievement in American Poetry, awarded by the Poetry Society of America, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her latest book is The Marble Bed (2020), an eighth book of poems, and her recent memoir is Strange Paradise: Portrait of a Marriage (2018). A ninth collection, Again the Dawn: New and Selected Poems, is due in November, 2022.
Among Schulman's other honors are the Aiken Taylor Award for poetry, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award, and New York University's Distinguished Alumni Award. She has won five Pushcart Prizes and has been featured seven times on Poetry Daily. About her poems, Harold Bloom has written, "Grace Schulman has developed into one of the permanent poets of her generation."
Schulman holds the Ph.D. from New York University. Editor of The Poems of Marianne Moore(2003), she is Distinguished Professor of English at Baruch College, C.U.N.Y. Schulman is former director of the Poetry Center, 92nd Street Y, 1974-84, and former poetry editor of The Nation, 1971-2006. She has taught Creative Writing at Princeton, Columbia, Wesleyan, and Hoffstra.
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