Fanny Howe, the author of dozens of poetry collections and novels, has died at 84, the New York Times reports.

Howe grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was educated at Stanford University. Her parents were the author and actor Mary Manning and the law professor Mark De Wolfe Howe.

Howe’s first books were a pair of pulp novels published under the pseudonym Della Field. She published her first poetry collection, Eggs, in 1970; more than 25 followed, including Introduction to the World, The End, One Crossed Out, and Manimal Woe.

Her novels include The White Slave, In the Middle of Nowhere, Famous Questions, The Deep North, Saving History, and Indivisible.

Howe had three children, including the novelist Danzy Senna, the author of Caucasia, New People, and Colored Television.

Howe’s admirers paid tribute to her on social media. On the platform X, poet Tom Snarsky wrote, “Fanny Howe was one of the first poets I ever heard read, at the Grolier from her book Second Childhood. From there it was so easy to fall in love with her poems’ simultaneous strangeness and ineffably inviting familiarity—they’ve been constant companions, and we’ve lost a legend.”

And poet Jorie Graham posted, “Beloved, visionary Fanny Howe, a beacon of ferocity, honesty & integrity—a fighter in all senses of the term—has moved on. Read her. The powerful voice does not depart. It only grows louder….”

Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.