Dana Roeser is the author of two books of poetry: In the Truth Room (Northeastern University Press, 2008) and Beautiful Motion (Northeastern University Press, 2004), both winners of the Morse Poetry Prize. Her poems appear in The Iowa Review, Harvard Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Northwest Review, The Southern Review, and Poetry Daily. She has received an individual artist’s fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award, and the Jenny McKean Moore Writer-in-Washington Fellowship. Roeser teaches in the MFA program at Butler University.  

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