Lynn Sukenick

Lynn Luria Sukenick (September 11, 1937, New York, New York – March 14, 1995, Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an American poet. She is also credited with coining the terms "daughter centric", and "matrophobic".

Life She received her undergraduate education at Brandeis University. She received a doctorate in English from City University of New York.

She taught at San Diego State University, University of California at San Diego, University of California, Irvine, University of California, Santa Cruz, Cornell University, Cleveland State University, the New College of California.

She married Ronald Sukenick, but they divorced in 1984. He collaborated with her in his story "Roast Beef: A Slice of Life" in The Death of the Novel and Other Stories.

Her work appeared in Ironwood, Quarry List, Five Finders Review, California Quarterly,

She coined the term matrophobia, the fear of becoming one's mother, in her work on Doris Lessing.

Awards 1977–1978 Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship

1975, 1977, 1979, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1991, 1993 Macdowell Fellowship

Work

Poetry books

Short stories

Criticism