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She was friends with a lot of the major figures of that movement,
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especially Allen Tate and Caroline Gordon.
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She lived out her life mostly in a
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small town called Milledgeville, georgia.
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She was born in Savannah in 1925.
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She studied writing at the Iowa Writers Workshop.
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She lived in New York for a short time, but she was afflicted with
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lupus, a very serious illness,
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and she died at the age of 39 in 1964.
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So, she lived a pretty short life.
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Over the course of that life, she wrote mostly short stories,
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and so she is very much known for her short stories.