December 12, 1916 [Sherman, Texas] – November 6, 2004 [Los Angeles, California]
Ain was born Josephine Cohen in Sherman, Texas. She and her family moved to Los Angeles in 1926; her poems first appeared in the LA Times in 1935. In 1938, Ain married the architect Gregory Ain in Los Angeles but they were divorced by 1940. She married Michael L. Mark, an actor and director, in 1944; in 1949, she married the painter Robert Chuey, with whom she remained (he died in a car accident in 1977). Ain was a finalist in the Yale Younger Poet series in 1952, the year that W.H. Auden judged the contest. She socialized with Timothy Leary and Alan Watts and experimented with LSD in the 1960s.
