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. Poetry Magazine,

Awards 1938 Pulitzer Prize

Works

Poetry

The Listening Landscape. Macmillan, New York. 1941

Terraces of Light. Grove Press. 1960

Editor

Non-fiction

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