Elizabeth bishop, born in Worcester, Massachusetts on February 8th, 1911, was an accomplished American poet and short story writer. She received many prestigious awards for her poetry pieces such as the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1956, the National Book Award in 1970, and the she was the recipient the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1976. In addition, she served as the Laureate of the United States from 1949 to 1950 which is most fascinating, because that is the title given to the nation's official poet. But before all that, her life had progressed unstably at the beginning with, first, her father who died, when she was just less than a year old, and then on top of that, her mother became unsteady, distraught, and devastated