Michelle Boisseau
Michelle Boisseau was an American poet.Life and career
Boisseau was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on 26 October 1955. She attended Ohio University, where she receiver a BA in 1977 and an MA in 1980, and the University of Houston where she received her PhD in 1985. She began teaching at the University of Missouri-Kansas City in 1995.
She published her first collection of poetry, No Private Life in 1990. This was followed by Understory in 1996 which won the Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize. She published Trembling Airs in 2003, A Sunday in God-Years in 2009 and Among the Gorgons in 2016. She has also published a textbook called Writing Poems and her work also appeared in publications such as Poetry, The Yale Review and The Cincinnati Review.
She was awarded with a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2017 for her work.
She died on 15 November 2017 from lung cancer.
