Yale University’s Louise Gluck Wins National Book Award

Louise Gluck, an adjunct professor of English and the Rosenkrantz Writer in Residence at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, received the National Book Award in poetry for her collection Faithful and Virtuous Night (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014).

Professor Gluck is the author of 10 books of poetry. She is a previous winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Professor Gluck is the former chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

Gluck attended both Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University.