[1] She was in a long relationship with poet Jack Gilbert,[2] and later married writer, political activist, and philosophy professor John Brentlinger.
Her published books include Things and Flesh, Chosen By The Lion, The Sacraments of Desire, Alma, Too Bright to See, In the Middle Distance, and All of it Singing.
[1] On March 20, 2019, she died of cancer at the Beth Israel Hospital in New York City.
[8] Her work has received enormous critical praise for its soaring lyrical depictions of grief and loss, and the strange strengths and beauty she mines from them.
Joseph Brodsky once stated that "[t]he blinding intensity of Ms. Gregg's lines stains the reader's psyche the way lightning or heartbreak do.