Professor Vaughn taught creative writing and literature at Cornell University for 39 years. In addition to her teaching responsibilities, she spent several years as director of the creative writing and co-director of a summer writing program in Rome.
Two women were award the Griffin Poetry Prize from the Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry. The trust awards two $65,000 prizes, one to a Canadian-born poet and one to a poet who is not Canadian. This year's winners are Anne Carson and Brenda Hillman.
