Education
She graduated from Stanford University in 1938 Phi Beta Kappa, and University of California, Los Angeles, with an Master of Arts in English in 1961, and a Doctor of Philosophy in English and American literature in 1962.
She graduated from Stanford University in 1938 Phi Beta Kappa, and University of California, Los Angeles, with an Master of Arts in English in 1961, and a Doctor of Philosophy in English and American literature in 1962.
In journalism in 1958, an Master of Arts When she died in 1987, at the age of seventy, Ann Stanford was at the apex of a long and distinguished career as a poet, translator, editor, scholar and teacher. She had also translated the classic Sanskrit text The Bhagavad Gita and edited The Women Poets in English, an anthology that gathered, for the first time, hundreds of years of poetry by women. Her poems had appeared regularly in the most prestigious journals and magazines—the New Yorker, The Atlantic, Poetry, The New Republic, The Southern Review—and had been widely honored.
From 1962 to 1987, she taught at California State University, Northridge.
Since 1988, a poetry prize has been awarded in her name. Magellan: A Poem to Be Read by Several Voices (Talisman Press, 1958) The Countess of Forlì (Orirana Press, 1985) The Bhagavad Gita: A New Verse (Herder and Herder, 1970) The Women Poets in English (McGraw-Hill, 1972) Critical Essays on Anne Bradstreet (with Pattie Cowell.
GK Hall, 1983).
She was a founding member of the Associated Writing Programs.