J. Allyn Rosser

She grew up in Sparta Township, New Jersey.^[1] She graduated from Middlebury College with a B.A. in French and English in 1980' from University of Pennsylvania with a M.A. in English Literature and Writing in 1988; and University of Pennsylvania with a Ph.D. in English Literature in 1991.

She lives in Athens, Ohio, teaching at Ohio University.^[2][3] She is editor of New Ohio Review.

Her poems have appeared in several anthologies, and journals including The Atlantic Monthly,^[4] Ninth Letter and Poetry.^[5]

Her husband is the poet Mark Halliday.

• Samuel French Morse Prize, for Bright Moves
• Crab Orchard Award, for Misery Prefigured
• 2007 The New Criterion Poetry Prize for Foiled Again ^[6]
• 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship^[7]

• "Unthought", Slate, Nov. 30, 2004
• "Coming Your Way", Poetry (February 1994)
• Bright Moves (Boston, Massachusetts: Northeastern University Press, 1990) ISBN 1-55553-083-4
• Misery Prefigured, Southern Illinois University Press, 2001, ISBN 978-0-8093-2383-8
• Foiled Again, Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2007, ISBN 978-1-56663-763-3
• Mimi's Trapeze, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0822963158