In 1953 she married Alfred H. Conrad, an economist teaching at Harvard University. Their three sons, David, Paul, and Jacob, were born in 1955, 1957, and 1959. During this period Rich continued to write and publish poetry. In 1966 the family moved from Cambridge, Massachusetts, to New York City when her husband began teaching at City College of New York. Rich began her own teaching career, which has included positions at Swarthmore College, Columbia University, Brandeis University, and City College of New York. After her husband's death in 1970, Rich continued to live in New York City, and taught at various times at City College, Brandeis University (as Hurst Visiting Professor), and Douglass College. Since 1976 she has lived with the writer and historian Michelle Cliff, and in 1979 they left New York, moving to western Massachusetts. Rich has published nine volumes of poetry and a considerable body of nonfiction prose. She is recognized as one of the best contemporary American poets and has received a number of prizes and awards, including the National Book Award for Poetry in 1974, which she rejected as an individual award but accepted as cowinner with Audre Lord, in the name of all women.
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