RICHMOND, Va., Dec. 6 (UPI) -- Pulitzer-prize winning poet Claudia Emerson, who served as the poet laureate of Virginia, has died. She was 57.
Emerson was awarded the Pulitzer in 2006 for her collection "Late Wife," which detailed the end of her first marriage and the beginning of her second. She was well known for her body of work, with collections that include "Pharaoh, Pharaoh," "Pinion: An Elegy," "Secure the Shadow," and "Figure Studies."