ABOUT MARYA ZATURENSKA
Ukraine-American poet and editor known for a 1938 Pulitzer Prize-winning collection entitled Cold Morning Sky. Her other poetic works include The Golden Mirror, The Hidden Waterfall, and Collected Poems.
She received a degree in library science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She published her debut poetry collection, Threshold and Heart, in 1934.
She was the daughter of immigrants from Kiev. As a teenager, she supported her family by working in a New York factory.
She married fellow poet Horace Gregory in 1925; the couple had a son and a daughter.
She edited a 1970 volume of poems by Christina Rossetti .
