Ann Stanford

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Ann Stanford (November 25, 1916 – July 12, 1987) was an American poet, translator, editor, scholar, and teacher. Born in La Habra, California, she studied at Stanford University, graduating Phi Beta Kappa in 1938, and earned multiple degrees from the University of California, Los Angeles: an MA in journalism (1958), an MA in English (1961), and a PhD in English and American literature (1962). She married architect Roland Arthur White in 1942, and they had four children, including Rosanna Norton, who became an Academy Award-nominated costume designer.

Stanford wrote eight volumes of poetry, two verse plays, and a book-length study of Anne Bradstreet. She translated The Bhagavad Gita and edited The Women Poets in English. Her poems appeared in major magazines such as The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Poetry, The New Republic, and The Southern Review. From 1962 to 1987 she taught at California State University, Northridge and was a founding member of the Associated Writing Programs. A poetry prize was established in her name in 1988. She died in 1987 at age 70.