“Mistress Bradstreet: America’s First Poet”
Charlotte Gordon
Charlotte Gordon began her writing life as a poet and has published two books of poetry,When The Grateful Dead Came To St. Louis and Two Girls on a Raft. Charlotte received an undergraduate degree in English and American Literature from Harvard University and a PhD from Boston University, where she received the Alumnae Award for the most distinguished dissertation. A post-doctoral fellow at Boston University, she taught Religion and Literature in the Department of Theology. Charlotte has also taught writing, history, literature, and theater at both the college and secondary school level. She currently teaches drama at the Glen Urquhart School in Beverly Ma and conducts writing workshops for adults from her home in Gloucester, MA.