Dana Roeser

Dana Roeser is the author of four books of poetry.  All Transparent Things Need Thundershirts, winner of the Wilder Prize, is forthcoming from Two Sylvias Press in 2019. The Theme of Tonight’s Party Has Been Changed, winner of the Juniper Prize, was published by University of Massachusetts Press in March 2014.  Roeser’s second book, In the Truth Room, was the winner of the Samuel French Morse Prize, judged by Rodney Jones, and was published by Northeastern University Press/University Press of New England in October 2008.  It was nominated for the 2010 Poets’ Prize. Her first book of poems, Beautiful Motion, received the Morse Prize (judged by Ellen Bryant Voigt) in 2004 and was published by Northeastern University Press that year.  In 2007 Roeser received a fellowship in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, and in 2005, she won the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award for Beautiful Motion and the 2005-2006 Jenny McKean Moore Writer-in-Washington Fellowship. In 2018, she was awarded a Pushcart Prize.