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lecturer librettist playwright poet
Glyn Maxwell was born in 1962 in Welwyn Garden City, Hertford, United Kingdom. His mother Buddug-Mair Powell (born 1928) acted in the original stage show of Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood in the West End and on Broadway in 1956. His father James Maxwell (born 1928) is a retired industrial chemist. Maxwell has two brothers, Alun (born 1960), and David (born 1964). His cousin Kerry Lee Powell is a noted Canadian writer.
Glyn studied English at Worcester College, Oxford. Then he began an M.Litt. there, but in 1987 moved to America to study poetry and drama with Derek Walcott at Boston University.
After graduating from Boston University, he returned to the UK and began publishing poetry in the 1990s. After the birth of his daughter Alfie, he moved with his family to the USA, living and teaching at first in Amherst, Massachusetts, and then in New York City, during which time he taught at Columbia, Princeton, NYU and the New School. He returned to the UK in 2006. In 2014 he edited a collected edition of the poems of Derek Walcott "The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013".
Maxwell has one daughter, Alfie (Alfreda Ceridwen Patricia Rose Maxwell), born 13 March 1997, from his marriage to Geraldine Harmsworth. They divorced in 2006.
