Laure-Anne Bosselaar

Author of The Hour Between Dog and Wolf and Small Gods of Grief, which won the 2001 Isabella Gardner Prize for Poetry. 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 The Washington Post, Georgia Review, Ploughshares, AGNI, Harvard Review, and many other publications. She is 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 City; and Never Before: Poems About First Experiences. With her husband, poet Kurt Brown, she translated a selection of poems entitled The Plural of Happiness, by the Flemish poet, critic, and essayist Herman de Coninck. She also translates American poetry into French, and Flemish poetry into English. SLC, 2001-