Sophie Cabot Black was raised on a small farm in New England and was educated at Marlboro College and Columbia University. Magazines and periodicals in which her poems have appeared include the Atlantic, Antaeus, and Partisan Review. Among her awards and honors are the Grolier Poetry Prize, the John Masefield Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, and fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and the MacDowell Colony. She lives in New York City.