Dana Roeser
Dana Roeser's second book, In the Truth Room, won the
Samuel French Morse Prize and was published in 2008 by the
University Press of New England. Her first book, Beautiful
Motion, also a recipient of the Morse Prize, was published in
2004. She has been the recipient of an NEA fellowship, the Great
Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award, and the Jenny McKean
Moore Writer-in-Washington Fellowship. Her poems have appeared in
The Iowa Review, Harvard Review, Antioch Review, Virginia Quarterly
Review, Massachusetts Review, Prairie Schooner, Southern Review,
Northwest Review, POOL, Shenandoah, Sou'wester, and other journals,
as well as on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily. She has received
fellowships for residencies at Yaddo, Ragdale, the Virginia Center
for the Creative Arts, Le Moulin à Nef (VCCA France), and Mary
Anderson Center for the Arts. She has taught in several colleges
and universities and is currently a visiting poet at Purdue
University. For several years, she was a visiting professor at
Butler University, and in the fall 2009, she will return to Butler
to teach the graduate MFA poetry writing workshop.