Boisseau, Michelle

Missouri County: Jackson
Genre: Poetry, Textbooks
Audience: Adult
Published Works:
A Sunday in God-Years, University of Arkansas Press, 2009; Trembling Air, a PEN USA finalist, University of Arkansas Press, 2003; Understory, winner of the Morse Prize, Northeastern University Press, 1996; Writing Poems, 7th ed. (co-authored with Robert Wallace), HarperCollins, 1995; No Private Life, Vanderbilt University Press, 1990; East of the Sun and West of the Moon, St. Louis Poetry Center, 1989. Various poems published in The Southern Review, The Kenyon Review,Poetry, The Gettysburg Review, Yale Review, Ploughshares, and The Threepenny Review.
Have any works been translated into other languages? No>
Awards: NEA Poetry Fellowship, 1989; Poetry Grant, Kentucky Foundation for Women, 1995; Al Smith Poetry Fellowship, Kentucky Arts Council, 1988; 2nd Place, Hanks Missouri Poets Contest, St. Louis Poetry Center, Inc., 1997; Walter E. Dakin Fellow 1996, Sewanee Writers conference, The University of the South; Samual French Morse Poetry Prize 1996, Northeastern University Press; Finalist (top 10), Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award for best manuscript in process, Poetry Society of America, 1995; Editor's Award, poetry, Cream City Review, 1993; Pushcart Prize Nominations, 1986-1997; Lucille Medwick Award (Best Poem on a Humanitarian Theme), Poetry Society of America, 1992; Honorable Mention, short story, 1990 Literary Awards, The Greensboro Review, 1991; Bread Loaf Scholarship in Poetry, Bread Loaf Writers conference, Middlebury College, VT, 1989; 1st Prize, Stanley Hanks Poetry Chapbook Contest, St. Louis Poetry Center, 1989; Finalist (top 20), Redbook short story contest, 1989; Cecil Hemley Award (Best Poem on a Philosophical Theme), Poetry Society of America, 1988; 1st Prize, National Poetry Competition, Chester H. Jones Foundation, 1985; 1st runner-up, Narrative Poetry contest, New England Review and Bread Loaf Quarterly, 1985; Ark River Review Chapbook Competition, Wichita State University, 1980
Speaking Engagements:
Author accepts.
Fee for speaking: Variable 
Contact Information: Department of English
UMKC, 5100 Rockhill Rd.
Kansas City, MO 64110-2499