About me
Anna V. Q. Ross’s most recent book, Flutter, Kick (Red Hen Press), won the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award, the Julia Ward Howe Award in Poetry, and was named a 2023 Best New Poetry Book by the New York Public Library. Her previous poetry collections include If a Storm (Anhinga Press, winner of the Robert Dana-Anhinga Prize), and the chapbooks Figuring (Bull City Press, Editor’s Choice for the Frost Place Chapbook Competition), and If a Storm (Finishing Line Press, winner of the New Women’s Voices Prize and the Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize). Anna is recipient of grants and fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Community of Writers, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Vermont Studio Center. Her work appears in journals including Harvard Review, The Kenyon Review, Missouri Review, The Nation, and was recently featured on The Slowdown. She is a poetry editor for Salamander Magazine and teaches creative writing and literature at Tufts University and through the Emerson Prison Initiative.