Lucie Brock-Broido was the author of Trouble in Mind (2004), The Master Letters (1995), and A Hunger (1988). Among her numerous awards were the Witter-Bynner Prize from the Academy of American Arts and Letters, the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Award, and the Jerome J. Shestack Poetry Prize from American Poetry Review. She also received two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships and a Guggenheim fellowship.