Complex sentence: Starus is the daughter of an Auschwitz survivor, and earned her MFA from Otis in 1972 then moved to Düsseldorf, Germany, as a Fulbright Scholar.
Split into simpler sentences: Starus is the daughter of an Auschwitz survivor. She earned her MFA from Otis in 1972, then moved to Düsseldorf, Germany, as a Fulbright Scholar.