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Laure-Anne Bosselaar grew up in Belgium, and moved to the United States in 1987. Fluent in four languages, she published poems in French and Flemish. She is the author of The Hour Between Dog and Wolf, and of Small Gods of Grief, which won the Isabella Gardner Prize for Poetry for 2001, both books published by BOA Editions.

Among other publications, her poems have appeared in Ploughshares, The Washington Post, AGNI, and Harvard Review, as well as in numerous anthologies. One of her poems won the National Poetry Contest, sponsored by I.E. magazine.

She was awarded a Fellowship at the Breadloaf Writers´ Conference, was a Writer in Residence at Hamilton College in NY State and at the Vermont Studio Center. She teaches a graduate poetry class at Sarah Lawrence College, and at the Low Residency MFA in Creative Writing Program of Pine Manor College.

An anthologist, she co-edited Night Out: Poems about Hotels, Motels, Restaurants and Bars with her husband, poet Kurt Brown, and edited Outsiders, Poems About Rebels Exiles and Renegades, as well as Urban Nature: Poems about Wildlife in the City. Her latest anthology, Never Before: Poems about First Experiences was published by Four Way Books in 2005.

In 2006, the Field Translation Series (Oberlin College Press) published The Plural of Happiness, Selected Poems by Herman de Coninck, translated from the Dutch by Laure-Anne and Kurt Brown.

In the spring of 2007, Ausable Press published Laure-Anne's third poetry collection A New Hunger.

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Poetry Collections by Laure-Anne Bosselaar

Poetry Anthologies Edited by Laure-Anne Bosselaar

Translations by Laure-Anne Bosselaar

Translated by Laure-Anne Bosselaar and Kurt Brown