Dana Roeser
Poetry
West Lafayette, IN
Dana Roeser’s fifth book, I Wake to a Life in Which the Beds Keep Moving, is winner of the Sexton Prize and is forthcoming from Black Spring Press Group (London) in 2026. Her fourth book, All Transparent Things Need Thundershirts, won the Wilder Prize at Two Sylvias Press and was published in September 2019. She is also the author of The Theme of Tonight’s Party Has Been Changed, recipient of the Juniper Prize, as well as Beautiful Motion and In the Truth Room, both winners of the Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize. She is currently at work on her sixth book, tentatively titled, I Galloped Beside a Field of Them. Among her many awards and honors are the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award, the Jenny McKean Moore Writer-in-Washington Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, and numerous residencies in the U.S. and abroad. She teaches in the MFA program in poetry at Butler University and has also been a visiting writer in the MFA programs at Purdue and Wichita State Universities. Recent poems have appeared, or are forthcoming, in Cimarron Review, North American Review, Poem-a-Day, The Glacier, DIAGRAM, Mississippi Review, Guesthouse, Laurel Review, and Barrow Street. Other poems (and translations) have appeared in New Ohio Review, Poetry, The Florida Review, Seneca Review, Southern Humanities Review, Denver Quarterly, The Iowa Review, Prairie Schooner, Green Mountains Review, Crazyhorse, PI Online, Notre Dame Review, Southern Review, The Writing Disorder, Southwest Review, Pleiades, Alaska Quarterly Review, Harvard Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Antioch Review, The Massachusetts Review, Poetry Daily, and others.
For more information, please see www.danaroeser.com.