Typewritten Poem ("Love Poem" or "Poem About Love") with annotations by the poet's hand & her signature beneath the poem. Born in Cambridge, England, where her father Charles was studying philosophy, Anne Stevenson was an American-British poet and writer and recipient of a Lannan Literary Award. The family returned to America when she was six months old, moving to New Haven, Connecticut. She studied music and languages, at the University of Michigan, where, when she began to lose her hearing, she prepared to be a writer instead of a musician. Moving between the United States and the UK numerous times during the first half of her life, she returned to live permanently in the UK In the 1960s where she lived and wrote in Cambridge, Glasgow, Dundee and Oxford. She was writer in residence at the University of Dundee and co-founded Other Poetry (magazine) with Evangeline Patterson. In 1979, with Michael Farley, she started The Poetry Bookshop in Hay-on-Wye and in 1982 she moved to Sunderland, then Durham.