Rosa Lane is author of four poetry collections including Called Back forthcoming, Tupelo Press, selected from the 2022 Summer Open Reading Period; Chouteau’s Chalk, winner, 2017 Georgia Poetry Prize; Tiller North, winner, 2014 Sixteen Rivers Poetry Manuscript Competition; and Roots and Reckonings, a chapbook partially funded by the Maine Arts Commission. In addition to being a finalist for the 2022 Fischer Prize, she was named runner-up for the 2023 River Heron Poetry Prize, as well as winner of the 2018 William Matthews Poetry Prize and a Maine Literary Award. Rosa's work is forthcoming or has appeared in the Asheville Poetry Review, Cutthroat, Five Points, Massachusetts Review, Nimrod, Ploughshares, Quarterly West, RHINO, River Heron Review, Southampton Review, and elsewhere. In addition to her MFA (1982) at Sarah Lawrence College where she studied with Jean Valentine, Jane Cooper, Grace Paley, and Tom Lux, Rosa earned a 2nd Masters (1989) and a PhD (2006) in sustainable architecture at UC Berkeley. Lane splits her time between her native home in coastal Maine and the San Francisco Bay Area where she lives with her wife.