Michelle Boisseau

Michelle Boisseau (October 26, 1955 – November 15, 2017) was an American poet.

Life and career

Boisseau was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on October 26, 1955. She attended Ohio University, where she received a BA in 1977 and an MA in 1980, and the University of Houston where she received her PhD in 1985. She began teaching at the University of Missouri-Kansas City in 1995.

She published her first collection of poetry, No Private Life in 1990. This was followed by Understory in 1996 She published Trembling Airs in 2003, A Sunday in God-Years in 2009 and Among the Gorgons in 2016. She has also published a textbook called Writing Poems and her work also appeared in publications such as Poetry, The Yale Review and The Cincinnati Review.

She was awarded with a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2017 for her work.

She died on November 15, 2017, from lung cancer.