Description

Ellen Bass’s poetry books include Like A Beggar (forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in February, 2014); The Human Line (Copper Canyon), named a Notable Book of 2007 by the San Francisco Chronicle; and Mules of Love (BOA), which won the Lambda Literary Award in 2002. She co-edited (with Florence Howe) the groundbreaking No More Masks! An Anthology of Poems by Women (Doubleday, 1973).

Her work has been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The American Poetry Review, The New Republic, The Progressive, The Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, The Sun and many other journals.

Her poetry has been widely anthologized and frequently read by Garrison Keillor on “The Writer’s Almanac.” Among her awards for poetry are a Pushcart Prize, the Elliston Book Award, The Pablo Neruda Prize from Nimrod/Hardman, the Larry Levis Prize from Missouri Review, and the New Letters Prize.