Marcia Ann Southwick (born October 30, 1949) is an American poet and University instructor of Creative writing who has received numerous awards and honors for her poetry and teaching.
[2] In 1981, they moved back to Iowa where they both taught in the M.F.A program as visiting poets for two years.
[3] In 1992, she met and married Murray Gell-Mann, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist,[4] and moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Southwick would go on to teach for many years as a Visiting Poet at the University of New Mexico.
[4] Southwick's volumes of poetry include A Saturday Night at the Flying Dog which won the Field Prize from Oberlin College Press.