Background
She grew up in Seattle and graduated from James A. Garfield High School in 1940.
She grew up in Seattle and graduated from James A. Garfield High School in 1940.
She graduated from University of California, Los Angeles in 1944, and in 1946 she married Doctor Bernard Kaufman, Junior. They had three daughters: Sharon (b 1948), Joan (b 1950) and Deborah (b 1955). She studied at San Francisco State University, with Jack Gilbert.
Her daughter, poet and playwright Debra Kaufman, made a short film about her poem "Ezekiel"s Wheels". Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, Harper"s, American Review, and The New Yorker.
