Laure-Anne Bosselaar is a Belgian-American poet, translator, professor, and formerpoet laureate of Santa Barbara, California.[1] She is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently,These Many Rooms (Four Way Books, 2019). Her collection,Small Gods of Grief (BOA Editions), won the 2001Isabella Gardner Prize for Poetry. A New Hunger, (Ausable Press 2008) was an American Library Association Notable Book in 2008. She is the author ofArtémis, a collection of French poems, published in Belgium. Her chapbookRooms Remembered appeared from Sungold Editions in 2018.[2]
Her poems have been published in literary magazines and journals includingPloughshares,[3]The Washington Post, AGNI,[4]Harvard Review, and have been widely anthologized. Her honors include aPushcart Prize,[5] a Bread Loaf Writers Conference fellowship, and she was a Writer in Residence at Hamilton College in NY State, and at theVermont Studio Center.[6]
Bosselaar has edited many anthologies, includingNever Before: Poems about First Experiences (Four Way Books, 2005),Outsiders, Poems About Rebels Exiles and Renegades, andNight Out: Poems about Hotels, Motels, Restaurants and Bars, co-edited with her husband, poet Kurt Brown. Her translations includeThe Plural of Happiness, Selected Poems by Herman de Coninck, co-translated with Kurt Brown (Oberlin College Press, 2006).[2]
She grew up in Belgium, and moved to the United States in 1987. She earned her M.F.A. from theWarren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. 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 atGeorgia Tech, taught atEmerson College,Sarah Lawrence College, at theCollege of Creative Studies atUniversity of California, Santa Barbara, and is part of the founding faculty at the Solstice Low Residency MFA in Creative Writing Program ofPine Manor College. She is the widow of poet Kurt Brown and currently lives inSanta Barbara, California.
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