Michelle Boisseau | |
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Born | Cincinnati, Ohio, United States | October 26, 1955
Died | November 15, 2017 | (aged 62)
Alma mater |
Ohio University University of Houston |
Notable awards |
Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize Guggenheim Fellowship |
Michelle Boisseau (October 26, 1955 – November 15, 2017) was an American poet.
Boisseau was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on October 26, 1955. She attended Ohio University, where she received a BA in 1977 and an MA in 1980, and the University of Houston where she received her PhD in 1985. [1] She began teaching at the University of Missouri-Kansas City in 1995. [2]
She published her first collection of poetry, No Private Life in 1990. This was followed by Understory in 1996 [1] which won the Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize. [3] She published Trembling Airs in 2003, A Sunday in God-Years in 2009 and Among the Gorgons in 2016. [4] She has also published a textbook called Writing Poems and her work also appeared in publications such as Poetry, The Yale Review and The Cincinnati Review. [5]
She was awarded with a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2017 for her work. [1]
She died on November 15, 2017, from lung cancer. [2]