About Gloria Oden
Gloria Catherine Oden was an American poet, editor and retired professor of English. She was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1979 for Resurrections, a collection of poems that responded to the unsolved murder of her mother and sister in their home in Washington, D.C. Gloria Oden began writing poetry at an early age, from first grade on through college and law school. Oden also spent three months in Israel in the early 1950s during the "In-gathering," when numerous Israelis from around the world migrated to the newly founded state of Israel. This was Oden's first experience with a community of writers: "I was amazed as I did not know of any young people writing poetry," she recalls.
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