Ann Fisher-Wirth

Ann Fisher-Wirth (born 25 January 1947) is an American poet and scholar, based at the University of Mississippi.

[3] She was born in Washington, D. C., and lived as a child in Germany, Pennsylvania, and Japan before her father retired from the Army and her parents decided to move to Berkeley, California.

degree, magna cum laude, in English from Pomona College in 1968;[1][5] an M.A.

[1] She has served as President of the international Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE), has had a senior Fulbright to the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, and has held the Fulbright Distinguished Chair at Uppsala University, Sweden.

[1] Her scholarly work has concentrated primarily on William Carlos Williams and Willa Cather, but she has published on other writers including Cormac McCarthy, Louise Gluck, Robert Hass, and Anita Brookner.