Anya Krugovoy Silver

Anya Krugovoy Silver was born Anya Christine Krugovoy in Media, Pennsylvania on December 22, 1968. She received a bachelor's degree in English and creative writing from Haverford College. She taught high school in Mississippi for a year before receiving a Ph.D. in English from Emory University. She became an English literature professor at Mercer University in 1998. In 2004, she was diagnosed with inflammatory breast cancer while pregnant with her only child. Her collections of poetry included The Ninety-Third Name of God, I Watched You Disappear, from nothing, and Second Bloom. She received a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation in 2018. She died from breast cancer on August 6, 2018 at the age of 49.