Joan SibleyJoan Sibley was born in Worcester, Mass. on February 17, 1939 to an older couple whose world of quiet Victorian manners, class and privilege shaped Joan's early life. Her mother was coolly distant, and Joan soon felt her disappointment and rejection.A creative child, drawn to the life of the imagination and joy in nature and wildlife, she slowly composed a world of her own. She attended Boston University, where she studied with Robert Lowell; Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton were two of her classmates. Later, she migrated to a small hamlet in Vermont and lived there for the rest of her life in a cabin with only a wood stove for heat. Although she was, basically, a recluse, she joined a local poetry group and continued to write her poems until her death at 74 on December 16, 2013. Read More Read Less