November 25, 1916 [Habra, California] – July 12, 1987 [Los Angeles, California]
Stanford graduated from Stanford University in 1938 Phi Beta Kappa, and University of California, Los Angeles, with an M.A. in journalism in 1958, an M.A. in English in 1961, and a Ph.D. in English and American literature in 1962. While at Stanford, she was part of the circle of Yvor Winters who included her in Twelve Poets of the Pacific (New Directions, 1937). She married Roland Arthur White, an architect, in 1942, and they had three daughters and one son. Her earlier books, which still reflected the formalist tendencies of Winters, were published by Alan Swallow, long a supporter of Southern California poetry; later volumes appeared with Viking Press. Herder and Herder published The Bhagavad Gita: A New Verse Translation in 1970. She edited The Women Poets in English (1972), a groundbreaking collection covering centuries. From 1962 to 1987, she taught at California State University, Northridge; among her students were the poets David Trinidad, and Maxine Scates who co-edited Holding Our Own: The Selected Poems of Ann Stanford, published by Copper Canyon Press in 2001.
