Eavan Boland

Eavan Boland (1944-2020) was the author of more than a dozen volumes of poetry, including Outside History, several volumes of nonfiction, and coeditor of the anthology The Making of Poem. Born in Dublin, Ireland, she was one of the foremost female voices in Irish literature. She received a Lannan Foundation Award and an American Ireland Fund Literary Award, among other honors. She taught at Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin, Bowdoin College, and at Stanford University, where she was the director of the creative writing program.