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Posted: 2019-01-17T19:49:33Z | Updated: 2019-01-17T19:49:33Z

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver died at age 83 on Thursday, and her fans are coming out in droves on social media to remember her lifes work.

Oliver, an Ohio native, died from lymphoma after penning more than 15 poetry and essay collections that covered topics like nature, mortality, sorrow and the plight of existence. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 for American Primitive, the National Book Award in 1993 for New and Selected Poems, and received the Lannan Literary Award for lifetime achievement in 1998.

Her most recent works include 2016s Upstream: Selected Essays and the 2017 anthology Devotions.