Ann Lauterbach is the author of numerous books of poetry, including Many Times, but Then; Clamor; On a Stair; Hum; If in Time: Selected Poems 1975-2000, and a collection of essays entitled The Night Sky: Writings on the Poetics of Experience.

She has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, and the New York State Foundation for the Arts. She has taught at Bard since 1991, where she is David and Ruth Schwab III Professor of Language and Literature and a faculty member of the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts.

The Ann Lauterbach Papers at the Beinecke Library include poetry and prose manuscripts, drafts and galleys of many of Lauterbach’s books, and correspondence from writers, editors, and artists, including: Charles Altieri, Maxine Chernoff, Rachel Blau Duplessis, Don Dellillo, Marjorie Perloff, Kenward Elmslie, Peter Straub, Harry Matthews, Philip Lopate, Susan Howe, and many others.