Diane Wood Middlebrook is a professional writer and a Professor of English at Stanford University. Middlebrook received her B.A. from the University of Washington, and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale. She joined the Stanford faculty in 1966. She is a founding trustee of the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, an interdisciplinary arts center in the Santa Cruz Mountains, and a member of the Advisory Board of the Kelsey Street Press in Berkeley. Her books include Worlds into Words: Understanding Modern Poems (1980); Gin Considered as a Demon (poems, 1983); Anne Sexton, A Biography published in 1991 spent eight weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list and was a finalist for the National Book Award. Middlebrook has completed a biography of jazz musician Billy Tipton (of Tulsa), a woman who lived a fifty-year professional and personal life masquerading as a man. It is due to be published in the Fall.