FANNY HOWE (1940-2025) was the author of many books of poetry and prose, most recently Manimal Woe (2021), Love and I (2019), The Needle’s Eye (2016) and Second Childhood (2014), which was selected as a finalist for the National Book Award. Howe’s Selected Poems (2000) won the 2001 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, and in 2001 and 2005, she was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize. She was awarded the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize in 2009. Howe taught at MIT, Tufts University, and elsewhere before taking a job at the University of California at San Diego, where she was professor emerita. Her papers are housed at Stanford University. Howe died on July 9, 2025, at the age of 84.