Marianne Boruch (born June 19, 1950) is an American poet whose published work also includes essays on poetry, sometimes in relation to other fields (music, visual art, ornithology, medicine, aviation, etc.)
Born and raised Catholic in Chicago, Boruch was educated in parish schools and spent many summers in Tuscola, Illinois with her grandparents.
[3] On occasion, she's run workshops and given lectures and readings at summer writers' conferences, among them Bread Loaf, the Haystack School of the Arts, Bear River, and RopeWalk.
[7] Her most recent collection, Eventually One Dreams the Real Thing, was published in 2016 by Copper Canyon Press.
She's been a Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome, and an Artist-in-Residence at two National Parks, Denali and Isle Royale.