Carole Satyamurti
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Satyamurti grew up in Kent, and lived in North America, Singapore and Uganda. She attended the University of London (BA 1960, PhD 1979), the University of Birmingham (postgraduate diploma in social work 1965), and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (MA 1967).[2] She married T. V. Sathyamurthy, who taught politics at York University,[3] in 1963, and they divorced in 1986; they had one daughter.[4] She lived in London until her death on 13 August 2019, aged 80.[5][6]
Career
She taught at the University of East London and at the Tavistock Clinic, where her main interest was relating psychoanalytic ideas to the stories people tell about themselves, whether in formal autobiography or everyday encounters.[7]
She was a writer in residence at the University of Sussex and the College of Charleston.[7] She taught for the Arvon Foundation and for the Poetry School.[1] She was vice-president of Ver Poets, a group of writers and poetry lovers based in St Albans.[8] She ran poetry programmes in Venice, Corfu and the National Gallery in London, with Gregory Warren Wilson.
