Maxine Kumin was born on June 6, 1925 in Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA as Maxine Winokur. She was a writer, known for Either Or (2013) and Literary Visions (1992). She was married to Victor M. Kumin. She died on February 6, 2014 in Warner, New Hampshire, USA.
She started out publishing light verse in newspapers and magazines in the 1950s, while raising three children.
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Kumin served as the poet laureate of New Hampshire from 1989 to 1994. From 1991 to 1994 Kumin was a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow. She has taught at many of the United States' most respected universities, including Princeton, Columbia, Brandeis, MIT, Washington at St. Louis and the University of Miami, served on the staff of the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Bread Loaf and Sewanee writer's conferences, and given readings or conducted writers' workshops in every state in the Union, save Hawaii and North Dakota. In 2005, Kumin was the recipient of the Harvard's Arts Medal.
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Besides more than a dozen volumes of poetry, she wrote several novels, children's books, and collections of essays and short stories.
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Won the Pulitzer Prize for her work 'Up Country' in 1973.
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Author and poet.
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She began teaching at Tufts University in 1958, and published her first poetry collection in 1961.
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