Laure-Anne Bosselaar grew up in Belgium where she worked as a talk-show hostess, commentator and voice-over for Belgian and Luxembourg Radio and Television. She is the author of Artémis, a collection of French poems, published in Belgium. She moved to the United States in 1987.

She holds a B.A. in Acting and Elocution from the Brussels Conservatory and an M.F.A. in Theater Arts from the Institut National des Arts des Spectacles (National Institute for the Performing Arts) in Brussels, Belgium. She taught Advanced Placement French Poetry at the International School of Brussels from 1983 to 1986.

A graduate from the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers, she taught poetry workshops for the Writers in the Schools program in Colorado, directed a poetry workshop in Snowmass Village, Colorado, and co-directed the Aspen Writers' Conference from 1989 to 1992.

Among other publications, her poems were published in Ploughshares, Ohio Review, Denver Quarterly, Harvard Review, AGNI, and The Washington Post as well as in numerous anthologies. Her work has been nominated yearly for the Pushcart Prize. One of her poems won First Prize in the 1996 National Poetry Contest, judged by Edward Hirsch, and sponsored by I.E. magazine.

Her first collection in English, The Hour Between Dog and Wolf, was published by BOA Editions. This book was a finalist for the Walt Whitman Award, the National Poetry Series, the Ohio State University Prize, and the Nicholas Roerich Prize. Her second book of poems, Small Gods of Grief, also published by BOA Editions, won the Isabella Gardner Prize for Poetry in 2001. New Hunger, Laure-Anne’s third poetry collection, was published by Ausable Press in March 2007.

She taught poetry workshops at the Sarah Lawrence Seminars for Writers, Catskill Poetry Workshops, Florida Suncoast Writers' Conference, the Frost Place Poetry Festival, was awarded a Fellowship at the Breadloaf Writers' Conference, and was a Writer in Residence at The Vermont Studio Center and at Hamilton College, New York.

With her husband, poet Kurt Brown, Laure-Anne Bosselaar co-edited Night Out: Poems about Hotels, Motels, Restaurants and Bars, and edited Outsiders: Poems about Rebels, Exiles and Renegades as well as Urban Nature: Poems about Wildlife in the City (all from Milkweed Editions). Her latest anthology, Never Before: Poems about First Experiences was published by Four Way Books in 2005.

Fluent in four languages, she is currently translating American poetry into French and Flemish poetry into English. In 2006, the Field Translation Series from Oberlin College Press published The Plural of Happiness, Selected Poems by Herman de Coninck, translated from the Dutch by Laure-Anne and Kurt Brown.