Background
Gibbs was born in Los Angeles, California, and attended Stanford University and University of California, Los Angeles She was married to the poet J. V. Cunningham from 1937 to 1945, and, later, to Francis Golffing.
Gibbs was born in Los Angeles, California, and attended Stanford University and University of California, Los Angeles She was married to the poet J. V. Cunningham from 1937 to 1945, and, later, to Francis Golffing.
She was a 1955 Guggenheim Fellow. Her work appeared in Poetry, The New Yorker, The Nation, and the Hudson Review.