Education
Sarah Lawrence College. Bennington College.
Sarah Lawrence College. Bennington College.
She is the mother of American artist Jennifer Macdonald. She wrote the libretto for The Rehearsal (1978), an opera by Thomas Benjamin. She co-founded, with Stanley Plumly, the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston in 1979.
She was a member of the board of directors of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs. She was a member of the English Department until her retirement in the mid-2000s, receiving the Esther Farfel Award for faculty excellence along the way.