Jill Allyn Rosser (born 1957 in

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), who published under J. Allyn Rosser, is a contemporary American

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Life

She grew up in

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. She graduated from Middlebury College with a B.A. in French and English in 1980' from

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with a M.A. in English Literature and Writing in 1988; and

with a Ph.D. in English Literature in 1991. She lives in Athens, Ohio, teaching at

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''Wired for Books'' Web site, accessed February 1, 2007 She is editor of ''New Ohio Review''. Her poems have appeared in several anthologies, and journals including ''

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'', '' Ninth Letter'' and ''

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''. Her husband is the poet Mark Halliday.

Awards

* Samuel French Morse Prize, for ''Bright Moves'' * Crab Orchard Award, for ''Misery Prefigured'' * 2007 ''

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'' Poetry Prize for ''Foiled Again'' * 2010 Guggenheim FellowshipOHIO: Compass , Rosser named Guggenheim Fellow
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Selected works

"Unthought"
''Slate'', Nov. 30, 2004

''Poetry'' (February 1994) * ''Bright Moves'' (Boston, Massachusetts: Northeastern University Press, 1990)
''Misery Prefigured''
Southern Illinois University Press, 2001, *''Foiled Again'', Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2007, *''Mimi's Trapeze'', University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014,

Anthologies

"Lover Release Agreement"; "Resurfaced"
''Poets of the new century'', editor Roger Weingarten, Richard Higgerson, David R. Godine Publisher, 2003,

References

External links

"J. Allyn Rosser Reads Her Poetry"
''The Washington Post'', Robert Pinsky, December 16, 2007 {{DEFAULTSORT:Rosser, J. Allyn 1957 births Living people People from Sparta, New Jersey American women poets 21st-century American women