Laure-Anne Bosselaar is a Belgian-American poet, translator, professor, and former poet laureate of Santa Barbara, California. She is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently, ''These Many Rooms'' (Four Way Books, 2019). Her collection, ''Small Gods of Grief'' (

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), won the 2001 Isabella Gardner Prize for Poetry.'' A New Hunger,'' (Ausable Press 2008) was an American Library Association Notable Book in 2008. She is the author of ''Artémis,'' a collection of French poems, published in Belgium. Her chapbook ''Rooms Remembered'' appeared from Sungold Editions in 2018.Author Website Bio
Her poems have been published in literary magazines and journals including ''Ploughshares,'' ''The Washington Post, AGNI,'' ''Harvard Review,'' and have been widely anthologized. Her honors include a

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, a Bread Loaf Writers Conference fellowship, and she was a Writer in Residence at Hamilton College in NY State, and at the

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.Academy of American Poets
/ref> Bosselaar has edited many anthologies, including ''Never Before: Poems about First Experiences'' (

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, 2005), ''Outsiders, Poems About Rebels Exiles and Renegades,'' and ''Night Out: Poems about Hotels, Motels, Restaurants and Bars,'' co-edited with her husband, poet Kurt Brown. Her translations include ''The Plural of Happiness, Selected Poems by Herman de Coninck,'' co-translated with Kurt Brown (Oberlin College Press, 2006). She grew up in Belgium, and moved to the United States in 1987. She earned her M.F.A. from the

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. She taught poetry workshops in Colorado and co-directed the Aspen Writers' Conference from 1989 to 1992. She is fluent in four languages, and has published poems in French and Flemish. She was a Breadloaf Fellow, was awarded the McEver Chair at

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, taught at

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, at the

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, and is part of the founding faculty at the Solstice Low Residency MFA in Creative Writing Program of

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. She is the widow of poet Kurt Brown and currently lives in

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Published works

* ''A New Hunger'' (Ausable Press, 2007) * ''Small Gods of Grief'' (

, 2001) * ''The Hour Between Dog and Wolf'' (BOA Editions, 1997) * ''These Many Rooms'' (Four Way Books, 2019)

References

Sources

Author Website

External links

Audio: ''The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor'' > ''The Pleasures of Hating'' by Laure-Anne Bosselaar

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