Louise Glück was born in New York City and grew up on Long Island. She is the author of several books of poetry, including Faithful and Virtuous Night (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2014), for which she won the 2014 National Book Award in Poetry. In 2020 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.”

Glück died at the age of eighty on October 13, 2023.