She graduated from Franklin & Marshall College, and Cornell University.
Gladding, who also teaches in the MFA in Writing Program at Vermont College, is the author of four books of poetry, one of which is a letterpress edition and one of which is a chapbook. She also has been involved in two performance/installations in collaboration with fellow poet and friend Suzanne Heyd. She has received numerous prizes, fellowships and awards for both her poetry and her translations.
Her poems have recently appeared in these journals: Agni, Chicago Review, ecopoetics, Grand Street, Hunger Mountain, Northern Woodlands, Orion, Paris Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, Terra Nova, Wild Earth, Wilderness Magazine, Yale Review.
Works
Blue Willow, On the Verge: Emerging Poets and Artists, March 1994, New Cambridge Press, Poetry 180, Library of Congress
Two Poems, Paris Review, Number 134, Spring 1995
The Two Houses, Yale Review, January 1997
Blue Willow; Indian Paint; Silver Queen; Uncle, AGNI 37, Boston University