Michelle Boisseau's fourth book of poems, A Sunday in God-Years, was published in 2009 by University of Arkansas Press.  Her other books of poety include Trembling Air, a PEN USA finalist, University of Arkansas Press 2003; Understory, winner of the Morse Prize, Northeastern University Press, 1996, and No Private Life, Vanderbilt, 1990. Her college textbook, Writing Poems (Longman), is in its 7th edition.

Dr. Boisseau was educated at Ohio University and the University of Houston (PhD English/Creative Writing). She has taught at Virginia Intermont College, Morehead State University, and since 1995 at UMKC where she is a professor and teaches courses in American literature, modern and contemporary literature, and creative writing. Her poems and essays have appeared in Poetry, Gettysburg Review, Threepenny Review, Yale Review, Georgia Review, Kenyon Review, Southern Review, Shenandoah, Ploughshares, and elsewhere.  She has received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and two prizes from The Poetry Society of America. She serves as associate editor of BkMk Press, and is a member of The Poetry Society of America and PEN America.

Degrees:

• Ph.D., University of Houston

Areas of Specialization:

• Poetry
  
• Creative Writing
  
• Modern and ContemporaryLiterature