Background
Schnackenberg, Gjertrud Cecelia was born on August 27, 1953 in Tacoma. Daughter of Walter Charles and Doris Ione (Strom) Schnackenberg.
Schnackenberg, Gjertrud Cecelia was born on August 27, 1953 in Tacoma. Daughter of Walter Charles and Doris Ione (Strom) Schnackenberg.
Bachelor summa cum laude, Mount Holyoke College, 1975. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Mount Holyoke College, 1985.
Fellow Radcliffe Institute, Radcliffe and Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1979-1980. Lecturer in writing Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1980-1981. Hurst professor poetry Washington University, St. Louis, 1987.
Conkling writer in residence Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, fall 1994. Visiting fellow St. Catherine's College, Oxford University, 1997, Getty Research Institute, 2000.
Fellow: American Academy Rome, American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Academy in Berlin.
Married Robert Nozick, October 5, 1987.