Lynn Sukenick

Lynn Luria Sukenick (1938 in New York City – March 14, 1995 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an American poet.

Life

She received her undergraduate education at Brandeis University. She received a doctorate in English from City University of New York.

She taught at San Diego State University, University of California at San Diego, University of California, Irvine, University of California, Santa Cruz, Cornell University, Cleveland State University, the New College of California.

She married Ronald Sukenick, but divorced in 1984. He collaborated with her in his story "Roast Beef: A Slice of Life" in The Death of the Novel and Other Stories.

Her work appeared in Ironwood, Quarry List, Five Finders Review, California Quarterly,

She coined the term Matrophobia, the fear of becoming one's mother, (in her work on Doris Lessing).

Awards

• 1977-1978 Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship