Minnesota 1945 births Living people Poets from California Creighton University alumni San Francisco State University alumni Poets from Minnesota National Endowment for the Arts Fellows Poets Laureate of California American women poets American women essayists 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American women writers 20th-century American poets 21st-century American poets 20th-century American essayists 21st-century American essayists Novelists from Minnesota University of Southern California faculty