Catherine Anderson (b. 1954) Womanhood LINKS The Academy of American Poets - Literary Exhibits: Catherine Anderson http://www.poets.org/lit/POET/canderso.htm This site contains some very brief biographical information about Anderson as well as a link to another site, Overhand the Hammers Swing: Poems of Work, which is curated by Philip Levine and which includes the text for "Womanhood." BIOGRAPHY Catherine Anderson (b. 1954) Born in Detroit, Michigan, Anderson is the author of In the Mother Tongue (1983), a book of poems published by Alice James Books of Cambridge, Massachusetts. She was the Cornelia Ward Fellow for Poetry at Syracuse University in 1976, where she received an M.A. in English and creative writing in 1979. She works as a community journalist and organizer in Boston's immigrant communities and has published in many journals, including The American Voice, The Antioch Review, and The Harvard Review.