J. Allyn Rosser

Jill Allyn Rosser (born 1957 Pennsylvania), who publishes as J. Allyn Rosser, is a contemporary American poet.

Life
Rosser grew up in Sparta, New Jersey. 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, University of Pennsylvania with a Ph.D., in English Literature in 1991.

She lives in Athens, Ohio, teaching at Ohio University. She is editor of New Ohio Review. She is married to poet Mark Halliday.

Her poems have appeared recently in several anthologies, and journals including The Atlantic Monthly, Ninth Letter and Poetry.

Awards

 * Samuel French Morse Prize, for Bright Moves
 * Crab Orchard Award, for Misery Prefigured
 * 2007 The New Criterion Poetry Prize for Foiled Again
 * 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship

Publications

 * Bright Moves. Boston: 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

Anthologized

 * "Lover Release Agreement"; "Resurfaced" in Poets of the New Century (edited by Roger Weingarten and Richard Higgerson), Boston: David R. Godine, Publisher, 2003, ISBN 978-1-56792-178-6