Via WaPo:
Ann B. Knox, who was in her 50s when she launched a successful career as a writer and teacher of poetry and short fiction, died May 10 while participating in a benefit poetry reading at Cacapon State Park in Berkeley Springs, W.Va. She was 85 and had a stroke.
Ms. Knox spent much of her adult life as a Foreign Service wife hopscotching from one U.S. embassy to another, raising six children at posts including Moscow, London and Karachi in Pakistan. She often grappled with life’s moments of crisis and ecstasy through writing poetry but said she did not really consider herself a writer until midlife.
When her children were grown, Ms. Knox bought a patch of land in southern Pennsylvania, in the foothills of the Appalachians. She built a one-room cabin, dug an outhouse and spent much of her time outside of Washington in that simple place, devoting herself to writing. She called herself a “recovering hostess.”
Ms. Knox’s work reflected her close observations of the natural world. She produced two full-length, award-winning poetry collections, “Stonecrop” (1988) and “Staying Is Nowhere” (1996), as well as a 1995 book of short stories, “Late Summer Break,” which won praise for capturing fleeting and delicate moments of transition in the lives of parents, spouses and lovers.
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Ms. Knox graduated from Vassar College in 1946 and later received a master’s degree in education from Catholic University. In 1981, she received a master’s degree in fine arts from what is now Warren Wilson College in Asheville, N.C., where her adviser was the acclaimed writer Raymond Carver.
Ms. Knox was the recipient of numerous grants and awards for her work from organizations including the Atlantic Center for the Arts, the Ucross Foundation and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
She married Foreign Service officer M. Gordon Knox in 1947. They divorced in 1989.
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