Laure-Anne Bosselaar

Laure-Anne Bosselaar is the author and of The Hour Between Dog and Wolf, and of Small Gods of Grief which was awarded the Isabella Gardner Prize for Poetry for 2001. Her third poetry collection, A New Hunger, was selected as an ALA Notable Book in 2008. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, and her poems have appeared in reviews such as The Washington Post, Georgia Review, Ploughshares, AGNI, Harvard Review, and many others. Garisson Keillor read two of her poems on NPR’s The Writers’ Almanach, and her poems have also been widely anthologized. She is herself the editor of four anthologies: Night Out: Poems about Hotels, Motels, Restaurants and Bars, Outsiders: Poems about Rebels, Exiles and Renegades, Urban Nature: Poems about Wildlife in the Cities, and Never Before: Poems About First Experiences. She taught poetry workshops at Emerson College, at the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Sarah Lawrence College, and at many conferences such as Catskill Poetry Workshops, the Palm Beach Poetry Festival, and the Frost Place Poetry Festival. She was awarded a Fellowship at the Breadloaf Writers' Conference, and was a Writer in Residence at The Vermont Studio Center as well as at Hamilton College, New York. She was the McEver Chair for Visiting Writers at Georgia Tech University in Atlanta, Georgia. Fluent in four languages, she is currently translating American poetry into French and Flemish poetry into English. She and her husband, poet Kurt Brown, completed a book of translations from Flemish poet Herman de Coninck: The Plural of Happiness. Sungold Editions published her chapbook Rooms Remembered.  She currently teaches at the Low Residency MFA in Creative Writing Program of Pine Manor College. Her fifth poetry collection These Many Rooms was be published by Four Way Books (2019)