Ms. Howe is a recipient of Guggenheim and
National Endowment for the Arts fellowships. Her first book, The Good Thief, was selected by Margaret
Atwood for the National Poetry Series, while her second volume, What the Living Do, was named one of the
five best books of poetry published in 1997 by Publisher’s Weekly.
She is
co-editor of In the Company of My
Solitude: American Writing from the AIDS Pandemic. She teaches in the writing
program at Sarah Lawrence College.