Chase Twichell

About

American poet, publisher, and academic known for Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been, a 2010 poetry collection. Her other poetic works include The Ghost of Eden, Northern Spy, Perdido, and Dog Language.

Before Fame

She studied at Trinity College and at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She published her debut poetry collection, The Odds, in 1986.

Trivia

Her 1998 collection of poems, The Snow Watcher, shows the influence of her study of Zen Buddhism.

Family Life

Born in Connecticut, she settled in New York with her fiction writer husband Russell Banks.

Associated With

She, like Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Alan Dugan, was born in the northeastern United States.