April Ossmann

April Ossmann is the author of EVENT BOUNDARIES (a 2018 VT Book Award finalist) and ANXIOUS MUSIC (both from Four Way Books), and a recipient of a 2013 Vermont Arts Council Creation Grant, and Prairie Schooner Readers' Choice Award. She has published her poetry widely in journals including Colorado Review and New England Review, and in anthologies including FROM THE FISHOUSE. She has published essays including Thinking Like an Editor: How to Order Your Poetry Manuscript (Poets & Writers, March/April 2011), and a biography/critical study of poet Lynda Hull in AMERICAN WRITERS SUPPLEMENT XXI. Former executive director of Alice James Books (2000 - 2008), she owns a poetry consulting business (www.aprilossmann.com), offering manuscript editing and publishing advice to poets. She has taught at the low-residency MFA in Creative Writing Program at Sierra Nevada College, and teaches private tutorials and poetry workshops using a method she developed to teach poets to revise their work objectively. She lives in White River Junction, Vermont.