"Ross writes of stewardship and sustenance, of violence and vulnerability; her poems are unafraid to ask what can't be answered, and unapologetic in their insistence that there is no space for the tender that doesn't also include the tough.” —Natalie Shapero
Anna V. Q. Ross’s second book, Flutter, Kick, won the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award from Red Hen Press. She is a Fulbright Scholar, a Mass Cultural Council fellow, and poetry editor for Salamander. Her work appears in The Nation, The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, and elsewhere.
"This feminist voice not only marvels and reveals, but also hums, channels, witnesses, and affirms" — January Gill O'Neil
"In Flutter, Kick, Ross focuses her sharp description, taut lyricism, and vigilant gaze at the world around her with a kind of double-attentiveness, attuned to the beauties and pleasures of everyday life, nature, and motherhood while remaining acutely aware that danger, tragedy or loss can intrude at any moment" —Jeffrey Harrison (Benjamin Saltman Award judge)
"Ross is a poet for whom counting each loss--figuring it both personally and politically--is an act of witness. Hers is a compassionate warning voice we need to hear." —Melissa Range
