I grew up in Belgium, so I learned to read and write in French and Flemish.!
Laure-Anne Bosselaar
American poet
Laure-Anne Bosselaar is a Belgian-American poet, translator, professor, and former poet laureate of Santa Barbara, California.[1] She is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently, These Many Rooms (Four Way Books, 2019).
Laure-Anne Bosselaar is a Belgian-American poet, translator, professor, and former poet laureate of Santa Barbara, California.
Her collection, Small Gods of Grief (BOA Editions), 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.[2]
Her poems have been published in literary magazines and journals including Ploughshares,[3]The Washington Post, AGNI,[4]Harvard Review, and have been widely anthologized.
Her honors include a Pushcart Prize,[5] a Bread Loaf Writers Conference fellowship, and she was a Writer in Residence at Hamilton Colle