Jean Garrigue (December 8, 1912 – December 27, 1972) was an American poet. In her lifetime, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a nomination for a National Book Award. Life Jean Garrigue was born Gertrude Louise Garrigus in Evansville, Indiana, to Allan Colfax and Gertrude (Heath) Garrigus. She was born in 1912 but later gave 1914 as her birth year. She had one sister, Marjorie, and one brother, Ross. Garrigue lived in Indianapolis for much of her early life, graduating from Shortridge High School in 1931. She was once expelled from school for bad behavior. After attending Butler University, she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Chicago, where her roommate was novelist Marguerite Young. She received her Master of Fine Arts from the Iowa Writers Workshop in 1943. She changed her name to Jean Garrigue in 1940, bringing the name closer to its original French spelling, and making it more gender-ambiguous. Garrigue moved to New York City and spent most of her life in Manhattan, aside from her teaching engagements and travels throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. In 1971, Garrigue was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease. She passed away at the Massachusetts General Hospital on December 27, 1972; her funeral was held at the Appleton chapel of Memorial Church at Harvard University. Influences and notable relationships Garrigue claimed Chopin, Keats, and Proust as early influences and she admired the English poets Thomas Wyatt, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Blake, and W. B. Yeats. After meeting at Yaddo in 1949, Garrigue maintained a relationship with Josephine Herbst that lasted until Herbst's death in 1969. The two exchanged thousands of letters over the years, and Garrigue frequently stayed at Herbst's farm in Erwinna, Pennsylvania. Garrigue also exchanged letters with Marianne Moore and Delmore Schwartz. Works Garrigue was first published in 1941 by The Kenyon Review. To supplement her income, she worked for Collier's as a researcher, edited a United States Organizations (U.S.O.) publication during World War II, and served as an assistant editor of an aeronautical magazine, The Flying Cadet. In 1944, James Laughlin, poet and publisher, included her collection Thirty-Six Poems and a Few Songs in the third series of his New Directions collection, Five Young American Poets, along with breakout poets like John Frederick Nims and Tennessee Williams. Garrigue began teaching poetry and creative writing courses in the 1950s and continued writing poetry, publishing The Monument