Louise Glück, the poet who was the most recent American writer to win the Nobel Prize in literature, has died at 80, the New York Times reports.

Glück, a New York City native, battled anorexia as a teenager, and never sought a college degree, choosing instead to dedicate herself to therapy. As a young woman, she worked as a secretary before making her literary debut in 1968 with the poetry collection Firstborn.

She would go on to write over a dozen more collections, including The Triumph of Achilles (1985), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award; The Wild Iris (1992), which was honored with the National Book Award; and Faithful and Virtuous Night (2014), which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. She served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2003 to 2004, and in 2020, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for “her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.”

Her most recent book, a work of fiction called Marigold and Rose, was published last year. A critic for Kirkus called the book “wise, funny, and wonderfully odd.”

Admirers of Glück paid tribute to her on social media. On X, formerly known as Twitter, poet Jericho Brown wrote, “I understand that everyone has to die. Today, I found out that I didn’t think of Louise as an everyone. Safe travels to the stylish lady with the relentless lines who loved Otis Redding & Aretha Franklin & RHOA & once told me THERE ARE NO LAWS AGAINST SADNESS!”

And poet D.A. Powell posted, “Louise and I celebrated her 80th birthday and my soon-to-be 60th at our favorite spot in April. When they brought her a candle, she waved it away. She was a funny, smart, thoughtful friend who made living an art. I am heartbroken.”

Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.