Life
Her father was a lawyer, and her Irish-born mother was an actress at the Abbey Theatre of Dublin for some time. Her sister is Susan Howe, who also became a poet. Fanny Howe grew up with her family in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She attended Stanford University for three years, and in 1961—the year she left Stanford—she married Frederick Delafield, whom she divorced two years later.
As a Civil Rights activist, she met and married the activist Carl Senna, who is of African-Mexican descent and is also a poet and writer. They are the parents of the novelist Danzy Senna, Lucien Quincy Senna, and Maceo Senna.
She has taught at Tufts University, Emerson College, Kenyon College, Columbia University, Yale University, Georgetown University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is professor emerita of Writing and Literature at the University of California, San Diego.
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