Background
Fisher-Wirth is the daughter of a career Army officer and an English teacher. She was born in Washington, D. C., and lived as a child in Germany, Pennsylvania, and Japan before her father retired from the Army and her parents decided to move to Berkeley, California.
Education
Degree in English and American literature from Claremont Graduate School in 1972. And a Doctor of Philosophy in English and American literature from Claremont Graduate School in 1981.
Career
She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree, magna cum laude, in English from Pomona College in 1968. An Master of Arts Her scholarly work has concentrated primarily on William Carlos Williams and Willa Cather, but she has published on other writers including Cormac McCarthy, Louise Gluck, Robert Hass, and Anita Brookner. She has served as President of the international Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE), has had a senior Fulbright to the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, and has held the Fulbright Distinguished Chair at Uppsala University, Sweden.
She has been teaching at the University of Mississippi since 1988.
Her daughter, Jessica Fisher, is also a poet. Selected Honors and