Ann Stanford was born in La Habra, California, and has lived most of her life in that state. She was educated at Stanford University (James D. Phelan Fellowship, 1938), where she received her B.A. in 1938 (Phi Beta Kappa). While still an undergraduate, she made her debut as a writer in Yvor Winters's volume, Twelve Poets of the Pacific (1937). She later attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where she received an M.A. in journalism in 1958, an M.A. in English in 1961, and a Ph.D. in English and American literature in 1962. During her student years in Los Angeles she worked as an executive secretary (1957-1958), an instructor in journalism (1958-1959), and a poetry workshop instructor (1960-1961). Since 1962 she has taught English at California State University, Northridge, formerly San Fernando Valley State College. Stanford married Roland Arthur White, an architect, in 1942, and they have three daughters and one...