Rosanna Warren
Rosanna Phelps Warren (born July 27, 1953) is an American poet and scholar. Biography. Warren is the daughter of novelist, literary critic and Poet Laureate Robert Penn Warren and writer Eleanor Clark. She graduated from Yale University, where she was a member of Manuscript Society, in 1976, with a degree in painting, and then in 1980 received an M.A. from Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars. Until July 2012 she was the Emma MacLachlan Metcalf Professor of the Humanities and a University Professor at Boston University. Warren's first collection of poetry, "Each Leaf Shines Separate" (1984), received generally favorable  notice in a review in "The New York Times". Her next collection, "Stained Glass", won the Lamont Poetry Prize for the best second volume published in the U. S. in 1993; in his review, Jonathan Aaron described these poems "tough-minded, beautifully crafted meditations". Warren was awarded the Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching at Boston University in 2004. She held a Lannan Foundation Marfa residency in 2005. In the 2008–09 academic year, Warren was a fellow of the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. Warren is currently the Hanna  Holborn Gray Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. Family. On December 21, 1981, Warren married Stephen Scully, but is now divorced. She has two daughters. Her younger daughter, Chiara Scully, graduated from Yale University, and is pursuing a writing career of her own. Her poetry has been published in the "Seneca Review" and "The New Republic". Her elder daughter, Katherine Scully, also graduated from Yale University and is a lawyer. Awards. Warren's other awards include several Pushcart Prizes, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award of Merit in Poetry, the  Witter Bynner Poetry Prize (1993), the Sara Teasdale Award in Poetry (2011), and a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 1990 she served as poet in residence at The Frost Place in Franconia, New Hampshire. She is a member of The American Academy of Arts and Letters, the American Philosophical Society, and The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has served as Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. In spring of 2006 she received a Berlin Prize to fund half a year of study and work at the American Academy in Berlin.