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Poet Renate Wood was a refugee in Austria as a child. She is a winner of the Emily Clark Balch Prize for her contributions to VQR, and was a recipient of a Yaddo Fellowship. Her son Chris is a founding member of jazz trio Medeski, Martin and Wood. She passed away in 2007 from complications from ALS.