Ellen Bass

Ellen Bass (born June 16, 1947) is an American poet and author. She has won three Pushcart Prizes and a Lambda Literary Award for her 2002 book ''Mules of Love''. She co-authored the 1991 child sexual abuse book ''The Courage to Heal''. She received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2014 and was elected a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2017. Bass has taught poetry at Pacific University and founded poetry programs for prison inmates. Provided by Wikipedia