Lucie Brock-Broido


Lucie Brock-Broido was an American author of four collections of poetry.
She was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and received many honors, including the Witter-Bynner prize of Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Award, the Harvard-Danforth Award for Distinction in Teaching, the Jerome J. Shestack Poetry Prize from American Poetry Review, two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, and a Guggenheim fellowship.

Life and career

A graduate of the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, she was Director of Poetry in the Writing Division at Columbia University School of the Arts in New York City.
Her long narrative poem, Jessica from the Well, tells the story of 18-month-old Jessica McClure, who was trapped in a well in Texas, from McClure's point of view, describing her as having a basic understanding of the physical and mythic elements of her situation. It has been reprinted numerous times.

Death

Brock-Broido died on March 6, 2018, aged 61, from cancer at her home in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Awards and honors

Critical studies and reviews of Brock-Broido's work