Recipients of the Roscoe Lee Browne
Poet-in-Residence Award

2010

Melissa Buzzeo is the author of What Began Us (Leon Works, 2007), Face (Bookthug, 2009) and the forthcoming For Want and Sound (Les Figues, 2012). She holds degrees from both the University of Iowa’s Writing Workshop and from Cornell.  Her work has been translated into French and Catalan and she has taught at Iowa, Brown and Pratt Institute. At present her work on mourning meaning and impoverished speech, The Devastation, is coming to a close. Another work A Chasm, the social body, lies ahead.

2009

Bruce Sneider is the author of "The Year We Studied Women," winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in poetry form the University of Wisconsin Press. Originally from Indiana, he lived for several years in Austin, Texas, where he was a James A. Michener Fellow in poetry and playwriting at the University of Texas Michener Center for Writers. His poetry and non-fiction have appeared in the American Poetry Review, Southern Review PN Review, Ploughshares Review and Prairie Schooner. A former Wallace Stegner fellow and Jones Lecturer in Poetry at Stanford University, he is currently the writer-in-residence at the James Merrill House in Stonington, CT.

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