J. Allyn Rosser

She grew up in Sparta Township, New Jersey.[1] 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.[2][3] 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,[4] Ninth Letter and Poetry.[5]

• Samuel French Morse Prize, for Bright Moves
• Crab Orchard Award, for Misery Prefigured
• 2007 The New Criterion Poetry Prize for Foiled Again [6]
• 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship[7]

• "Unthought", Slate, Nov. 30, 2004
• "Coming Your Way", Poetry (February 1994)
• Bright Moves (Boston, Massachusetts: Northeastern University Press, 1990) ISBN 1-55553-083-4
• Misery Prefigured, Southern Illinois University Press, 2001, ISBN 978-0-8093-2383-8
• Foiled Again, Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2007, ISBN 978-1-56663-763-3
• Mimi's Trapeze, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0822963158

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