Heather McHugh received a B.A. (1970) from Harvard University and an M.A. (1972) from the University of Denver. Her additional books of poetry include “The Father of Predicaments” (2001 ...

But when the poet Heather McHugh won a MacArthur genius grant in 2009, she used that largess to start an organization called Caregifted, which provides free vacations to caregivers of the severely ...

Heather McHugh gorgeously exemplif [ies], long ago [she would] have been made to endure the title of national treasure.” Seamus Heaney speaks of McHugh’s “wonderful fluency and happy ...

Heather McHugh is a Radcliffe grad in cowboy boots. Her witty poems shift gears from Okie slow to spaceship speed. A translator from many tongues, she loves a pun, even when mourning a dead pooch ...