Kathleen Norris (b. 1947) The Ignominy of the Living LINKS No links found. BIOGRAPHY Kathleen Norris (b. 1947) Norris was born in Washington, D.C., and educated at Bennington College in Vermont (B.A., 1969). From 1969 to 1973, she worked for the Academy of American Poets in New York and was later affiliated with Leaves of Grass, Inc., in Lemmon, South Dakota, where she lives. Her awards include a Provincetown Fine Arts Center Fellowship (1972), and a Creative Artists Public Service Grant from the state of New York (1972–1973). Her works have appeared in many periodicals, including Dragonfly, Lillabulero, and the New Yorker. She is the author of two collections of poems, Falling Off (1971) and The Middle of the World (1981). Her most recent book is The Cloister Walk (1996).