Kumin, Maxine (1925– )

US poet and writer. A writer of fiction, children's books, essays, and poetry, she was named poetry consultant to the Library of Congress (1981–82). She is best known for poems of the Northeast, as in Up Country: Poems of New England (1972). Kumin was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She studied at Radcliffe College, gaining her MA in 1948. She taught at Tufts University (1958–61; 1965–68), Princeton University (1977; 1979; 1981–82), and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1984), among other institutions.