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{{short description|American poet}}
{{Infobox writer
| name          = Marya Zaturenska
| image         = Marya Zaturenska.jpg
| birth_date    = September 12, 1902
| birth_place   = [[Kyiv]], [[Ukraine]]
| death_date    = {{death date and age|1982|1|19|1902|9|12}}
| death_place   = [[Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts]]
| education     = [[Valparaiso University]]<br />[[University of Wisconsin, Madison]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])
| genre         = [[Lyric poetry]]
| notableworks  = ''Cold Morning Sky''
| spouse        = [[Horace Gregory]] (m. 1925)
| awards        = [[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]] (1938)
}}
'''Marya Zaturenska''' (September 12, 1902 &ndash; January 19, 1982) was an American [[Lyric poetry|lyric poet]], winner of the [[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]] in 1938.<ref name="nytimes.com">{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/01/21/obituaries/marya-zaturenska-lyric-poet-received-pulitzer-prize-in-38.html| title=MARYA ZATURENSKA, LYRIC POET RECEIVED PULITZER PRIZE IN '38| date=January 21, 1982| work=The New York Times}}</ref>

==Life==
She was born in [[Kyiv]] and her family emigrated to the United States, when she was eight and lived in New York. Like many immigrants, she worked in a clothing factory during the day, but was able to attend night high school. She was an outstanding student and won a scholarship to [[Valparaiso University]];<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nli.org.il/he/newspapers/frw/1926/02/14/01/article/33|title=⁨‭A JEWISH GIRL SHOCKS KU KLUXIA  ⁩ &#124; ⁨פארװערטס⁩ &#124; 14 פברואר 1926 &#124; אוסף העיתונות &#124; הספרייה הלאומית|website=www.nli.org.il}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nli.org.il/he/newspapers/frw/1926/02/14/01/article/104|title=⁨‭How She Shocked Ku Kluxia  ⁩ &#124; ⁨פארװערטס⁩ &#124; 14 פברואר 1926 &#124; אוסף העיתונות &#124; הספרייה הלאומית|website=www.nli.org.il}}</ref> she later transferred to the [[University of Wisconsin–Madison]], receiving a degree in library science.<ref>{{cite book| chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=18J48gmmwrAC&q=Marya+Zaturenska&pg=PA122| chapter=Marya Zaturenska| title=The tenement saga: the Lower East Side and early Jewish American writers| author=Sanford V. Sternlicht| publisher=Terrace Books| year=2004| isbn=978-0-299-20484-6 }}</ref> She met her husband, the prize-winning poet [[Horace Gregory]] there; they married in 1925.<ref name="nytimes.com"/>  Her two children were Patrick and Joanna Gregory. She wrote eight volumes of poetry, including the [[Pulitzer Prize]]-winning ''Cold Morning Sky'', and she edited six anthologies of poetry.

Her work appeared in ''The New York Times'',<ref>{{cite news| url=https://query.nytimes.com/search/query?frow=0&n=10&srcht=s&query=Marya+Zaturenska&srchst=p&submit.x=36&submit.y=7&submit=sub&hdlquery=&bylquery=Marya+Zaturenska&daterange=full&mon1=01&day1=01&year1=1981&mon2=06&day2=19&year2=2009 | work=The New York Times | first=Marya | last=Zaturenska | title=The New York Times - Search | access-date=May 12, 2010}}</ref> ''Poetry Magazine'',<ref>{{cite web | title=Search Marya Zaturenska| website=Poetry Foundation | date=2017-03-28 | url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/search | access-date=2022-10-06}}</ref>

==Awards==
* 1938 Pulitzer Prize

==Works==

===Poetry===

* {{cite book| title=Threshold and Hearth| publisher=The Macmillan company| year=1934 }}
* {{cite book| title=Cold Morning Sky| publisher=Macmillan| year=1937 }}
* ''The Listening Landscape''. Macmillan, New York. 1941
* {{Cite book| title=The Golden Mirror| place=New York| publisher=The Macmillan company| year=1944 }}
* {{cite book| title=Selected poems| publisher=Grove Press| year=1954 }}
* ''Terraces of Light''. Grove Press. 1960
* {{cite book| title=Collected Poems| url=https://archive.org/details/collectedpoems00thor| url-access=registration| publisher=Viking Press| year=1965 }}
* {{cite book| title=The Hidden Waterfall: poems| url=https://archive.org/details/hiddenwaterfall00mary| url-access=registration| publisher=[[Vanguard Press]]| year=1974 }}
* {{cite book| title=New selected poems of Marya Zaturenska| editor=Robert S. Phillips| publisher=Syracuse University Press| year=2002| isbn=978-0-8156-0717-5 }}

===Editor===
* {{cite book| title=Selected poems of Christina Rossetti| author=Christina Georgina Rossetti| editor=Marya Zaturenska| publisher=Macmillan| year=1970 }}

===Non-fiction===
* {{cite book| title=The diaries of Marya Zaturenska, 1938-1944| editor=Mary Beth Hinton| publisher=Syracuse University Press| year=2002| isbn=978-0-8156-0714-4 }}
* {{cite book| title=A History of American poetry, 1900-1940| url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.215305|author=Marya Zaturenska |author2=Horace Gregory | publisher=Harcourt, Brace and Co.| year=1946 }}
* Marya Zaturenska, (1949). ''Christina Rossetti, A Portrait With Background'', The MacMillan Company.

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[[Category:1902 births]]
[[Category:1982 deaths]]
[[Category:Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winners]]
[[Category:American women poets]]
[[Category:Valparaiso University alumni]]
[[Category:University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Library and Information Studies alumni]]
[[Category:20th-century American poets]]
[[Category:Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States]]
[[Category:20th-century American women writers]]
[[Category:People from Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts]]


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