April Ossmann is the author of ANXIOUS MUSIC (Four Way Books, 2007), and has published her poetry widely in journals including Colorado Review and Harvard Review, and in anthologies including FROM THE FISHOUSE. She has also published essays including Thinking Like an Editor: How to Order Your Poetry Manuscript (Poets & Writers, March/April 2011). Former executive director of Alice James Books (2000 – 2008), she owns a poetry consulting business, offering manuscript editing and publishing advice to poets. She is among the inaugural faculty for the low-residency MFA in Creative Writing Program at Sierra Nevada College at Lake Tahoe, and teaches private tutorials and poetry workshops using a method she developed to teach poets to revise their work objectively. She lives in Post Mills, Vermont.

Anxious Music (Four Way Books, 2007)

From the Fishouse (Persea Books, 2009), The Maine Poets: An Anthology of Verse (Down East Books, 2003), Contemporary Poetry of New England (University Press of New England, 2002)

Antioch Review, Apostrophe, Berkeley Poetry Review, Cimarron Review, Cincinnati Poetry Review, Colorado Review, Folio: A Literary Journal, Georgetown Review, Harvard Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Interim, Isle, MiPOesias, Passages North, Poetry Northwest, Prairie Schooner, Puerto del Sol, Seneca Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Third Coast