Sophie Cabot Black is an American prize-winning poet who has taught creative writing at Columbia University.
Occupation
linguist, translator
Citizenship
United States
Born
1958
Website
https://sophiecabotblack.com/
Overview
Sophie Cabot Black (born 18 April 1958) is an American prize-winning poet who has taught creative writing at Columbia University.
Early life
Cabot was born in New York, New York and raised on a small farm in Wilton, Connecticut. Her father is David Goldmark Black (b. 1931), a Broadway producer, actor, teacher, writer and artistic director. Her mother is Linda (Cabot) Black, cofounder of Opera Company of Boston and Opera New England. She has two siblings: actor Jeremy Black, who appeared as the boy Hitler clones in Boys from Brazil, and Alexander Black. She also has two daughters. Her maternal great-grandfather was industrialist and philanthropist Godfrey Lowell Cabot.
In 1980, Black received her Bachelor of Arts from Marlboro College. In 1984, she graduated from Columbia University with a Master of Fine Arts.
Ancestry
Sophie Cabot Black is part of the Cabot family of the Boston Brahmin also known as the "first families of Boston."
