Washington Writers' Publishing House

Beate Sigriddaughter (Goldman)

Poet laureate of Silver City, New Mexico, from May 2017 to April 2019, Beate Sigriddaughter grew up in Nürnberg, Germany, not far from the castle, reading fairy tales and playing in World War II ruins. In fact, in a corner of a covered walkway at the castle, she rewrote her first fairy tale at age 7. The original fairy tale was “Jorinde and Joringel” from the Brothers Grimm collection. After graduating from a Lutheran girls’ high school in Germany, she studied at Georgetown University’s College of Arts and Sciences, which had until shortly before been a Catholic men’s college. Contrasts, if not contradictions, are part of the theme of her life.