J. Allyn Rosser

Jill Allyn Rosser (born 1957 Pennsylvania), who published under J. Allyn Rosser, is a contemporary American poet.

Life

She grew up in Sparta, New Jersey. She graduated from Middlebury College with a B.A. in French and English in 1980, from University of Pennsylvania with a M.A. in English Literature and Writing in 1988, University of Pennsylvania with a Ph.D., in English Literature in 1991.

She lives in Athens, Ohio, teaching at Ohio University. She is editor of New Ohio Review. She is married to poet Mark Halliday.

Her poems have appeared recently in several anthologies, and journals including The Atlantic Monthly, Ninth Letter and Poetry.

Awards

• Samuel French Morse Prize, for Bright Moves
• Crab Orchard Award, for Misery Prefigured
• 2007 The New Criterion Poetry Prize for Foiled Again
• 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship

Works

• "Unthought", Slate, Nov. 30, 2004
• "Coming Your Way", Poetry (February 1994)

• Bright Moves (Boston, Massachusetts: Northeastern University Press, 1990) ISBN 1555530834
• Misery Prefigured, Southern Illinois University Press, 2001, ISBN 9780809323838
• Foiled Again, Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2007, ISBN 9781566637633

Anthologies

• "Lover Release Agreement"; "Resurfaced", Poets of the new century, editor Roger Weingarten, Richard Higgerson, David R. Godine Publisher, 2003, ISBN 9781567921786

External links

• "J. Allyn Rosser Reads Her Poetry"
• "Poet's Choice", The Washington Post, Robert Pinsky, December 16, 2007