BIO
Anna V. Q. Ross’s most recent book, Flutter, Kick (Red Hen Press, 2022), won the 2020 Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award and the 2023 Julia Ward Howe Award in Poetry and was named a Best New Poetry Book by the New York Public Library.
Her previous collections include If a Storm (Anhinga Press, winner of the Robert Dana-Anhinga Prize for Poetry); Figuring (Bull City Press); and Hawk Weather (winner the New Women’s Voices Prize from Finishing Line Press and the Jean Pedrick Chapbook Award from the New England Poetry Society).
A recipient of fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Fulbright Foundation, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Vermont Studio Center, her recent work appears in Kenyon Review, Harvard Review, The Nation, The Missouri Review, Poetry Northwest, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. She is poetry editor for Salamander Magazine and teaches at Tufts University and through the Emerson Prison Initiative. Anna lives with her family in Dorchester, where she runs the poetry and music series Unearthed Song & Poetry and raises chickens.
Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award from Red Hen Press for Flutter, Kick, (selected by Jeffrey Harrison), 2020
Fulbright Specialist Roster, 2020-2023
Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship in Poetry, 2018
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Artist Fellowship in Poetry, October 2018
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Artist Fellowship in Poetry, August 2018
Vermont Studio Center Summer Fellowship, 2016
Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Grant in Poetry, 2016
Editor’s Choice, Frost Place Chapbook Competition for Figuring, 2015
Poetry Society of America Alice Fay Di Castagnola Prize, Finalist, 2015
Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Grant in Poetry, 2014
Walter E. Dakin Fellow, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, 2014
Lucille Clifton Scholarship, Community of Writers, 2013
Robert Dana-Anhinga Prize for Poetry for If a Storm (selected by Julianna Baggott), 2012
Tennessee Williams Scholar, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, 2012
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
Mary Lyon Award for Outstanding Alumnae Achievement, Mount Holyoke College, 2011
Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Grant in Poetry, 2010
New England Poetry Club Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize for Hawk Weather, 2009
New Women’s Voices Poetry Prize for Hawk Weather, Finishing Line Press, 2008
Fishtrap Poetry Fellowship, 2008
Grub Street Poetry Revision Fellowship (selected by Linda Bierds), 2005
GSU Review Poetry Prize (selected by C. K. Williams), 2004
Summer Literary Seminars Fellowship, St. Petersburg, 2004
School of the Arts, Columbia University, Departmental Research Fellowship, 2002-2003
Clio-Melpomene Prize, Mount Holyoke College, 1997
Ada L. F. Snell Poetry Prize, Mount Holyoke College, 1997
Academy of American Poets Gertrude Claytor Award, Mount Holyoke College, 1995