Lannan Foundation

Jean Valentine, Writer and Poet - Marfa, Fall 2000

Jean Valentine was born in 1934 and graduated from Radcliff in 1956. She won the Yale Younger Poets Prize in 1964 for her first book, Dream Barker. Her other books include Pilgrims; Ordinary Thing; The Messenger; Growing Darkness, Growing Light; and The Cradle of the Real Life.

She has received both NEA and Guggenheim grants. She lives in New York and teaches at Sarah Lawrence. While in residence, she worked on her next volume of poems.