Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) published four books of poems in her lifetime: Geography III (1976), Questions of Travel (1965), A Cold Spring (1956), and North & South (1946). Posthumous volumes include Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments (2006) and The Complete Poems 1927-1979 (1983). Born in Worcester, MA and raised in Nova Scotia, she spent much of her adult life in Brazil, only returning to the US for her last 9 years. She was the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize, two Guggenheim awards, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, and Brazil’s Order of Rio Branco. From 1949-1950, she served as Poetry Consultant to the Library of Congress in Washington, DC.
