April Ossmann

April Ossmann is an American poet, teacher, and editor. She is author of Event Boundaries (Four Way Books, 2017) and Anxious Music (Four Way Books, 2007), and has had her poems published in many literary journals including Harvard Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Puerto del Sol, Seneca Review, Passages North, Mid-American Review,Mid-American Review | Volume XVIII, No. 2 | Spring 1998 | TOC and Colorado Review, and in anthologies including From the Fishouse (Persea Books, 2009),Persea Books | From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great | Edited by Camille T. Dungy, Matt O'Donnell & Jeffrey Thomson and Contemporary Poetry of New England (Middlebury College Press, 2002). Her awards include a 2000 Prairie Schooner Reader's Choice Award.University of Nebraska – Lincoln Website | News Releases | 02/13/01 Her essays have been published in Poets & Writers,Poets & Writers | The Practical Writer | Thinking Like an Editor: How to Order Your Poetry Manuscript | by April Ossmann | 02/28/2011 and by the Poetry Foundation.Poetry Foundation | Poets | April Ossmann | Prose by This Poet

Career Ossmann worked as an assistant, and then associate, editor for the University Press of New England for over three years.

Alice James Books Ossmann was executive director of Alice James Books from 2000 to 2008, presiding over a period of growth that, according to Poets & Writers, saw the press budget more than double in size,Poets & Writers | March 1, 2009 | Q & A: April Ossmann’s Alice James Fix by Kevin Larimer and saw the publication of the best-selling Here, Bullet, by Brian Turner, which garnered major media attention.Alice James Books | Brian Turner’s Author Page Online NewsHour | Poetry Series | Poet Profile | Brian Turner | PBSThe New Yorker | The Talk of the Town | Ink: War Poet | by Dana Goodyear, 11-14-05McClatchy News – Washington Bureau | Veteran Turns War Poet | By Michael Doyle | November 18, 2005 According to Publishers Weekly, which interviewed Ossmann on the occasion of Alice James Books’ thirtieth anniversary, "the press received a three-year, $250,000 stabilization grant from an anonymous donor...With the grant, the press added two full-time staffers, upgraded its equipment, and launched a website with secure online ordering. The press also signed with a trade distributor for the first time, Consortium Book Sales and Distribution."Interview with Ossmann by Publishers Weekly | Alice James Books at 30 | by Judith Rosen | 05/19/2003 According to Valley News (West Lebanon, NH) reporter Kristen Fountain, “It was an all-consuming, life-changing position, during which she stabilized the company's financial structure, increased its output and helped push its books into the national press.”Profile: Valley News | Close-up: A Poet Makes Her Home in the Land of Robert Frost | By Kristen Fountain | Friday, May 22, 2009

Since leaving Alice James Books in 2008Poets & Writers Directory | April Ossmann to launch her own business, she has worked as a freelance editor and consultant.Poets & Writers | March 1, 2009 | Q & A: April Ossmann’s Alice James Fix by Kevin LarimerPoets & Writers Directory | April OssmannVermont Arts Council | Featured Stories | Reaching for Mastery | Interview with April Ossmann by Susan MacDowell | March 30, 2017The Adroit Journal Conversations with Contributors: Francesca Bell | by Lisa Higgs | April 23, 2019

Teaching Ossmann has taught literature and creative writing for the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Sierra Nevada College at Lake Tahoe,Poets & Writers Directory | April Ossmann the University of Maine at Farmington, and Lebanon College,Poets & Writers | Directory of Writers | April Ossmann and has performed at Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing residencies and the Bread Loaf Writers' ConferenceMiddlebury College Website | Academics | Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference | Faculty | 2005 faculty as a visiting publisher. She currently teaches poetry workshopsPoetry Society of Vermont Summer Festival Saturday August 7, 2021 Poetry Workshop with April Ossmann August 7, 2021Sacramento Poetry Center Conference Archive | Spring 2018 Presenters | Thinking Like a Poetry Editor: How to Self-Edit a Poetry Manuscript, with April Ossmann and private tutorials.Poets & Writers Directory | April Ossmann

Published works We (Red Hen Press, 2025) Event Boundaries (Four Way Books, 2017) Anxious Music (Four Way Books, 2007)

Reception Publishers Weekly, in reviewing Anxious Music, wrote that Ossmann's voice is "remarkable for its confidence and fierceness."Publishers Weekly | 11/19/2007 | Review of Anxious Music by April Ossmann Event Boundaries was a finalist for the 2018 Vermont Book Award,Vermont College of Fine Arts | Vermont Book Award Finalists and Winners and Ossmann received a 2013 Vermont Arts Council Creation Grant for the manuscript-in-progress.“Valley News” | Book Notes: Post Mills Poet and Editor Wins Grant | Friday, November 3, 2012Vermont Arts Council blog | March 30, 2017 | “Reaching for Mastery” Posted by Susan McDowell In its review of the book, Library Journal wrote, “The poems are beautiful and subtly witty, complicated and deceptively honest.”Library Journal | 04/01/2017 | Event Boundaries Reviewed by Karla Huston Her third collection We was noted as "seeking to mend political divisions through spirituality" and "address[ing] political divide and how to find common ground in your community". Ossmann has been interviewed by radio programs in California,Lois P. Jones | Radio: Poets Café Interviews | KFPK 90.7 FM Los Angeles | April Ossmann on Poets Cafécapradio 90.9 FM | Arts and Lifestyles | Insight with Viki Gonzales | Event Boundaries Explores Relationships with Self and Others | April 24, 2017 | Sacramento, CA podcast in Vermont,Write the Book: Conversations on Craft | April Ossmann Interview | #510 May 21, 2018 and in print by the Valley News,Valley News | Book Notes: West Windsor Poet’s Work Takes Turn | by EmmaJean Holley | July 14, 2017Valley News | Archives | Book Notes: Post Mills Poet and Editor Wins Grant | by Alex Hanson | November 23, 2012 the Vermont Arts Council,Vermont Arts Council | Featured Stories | Reaching for Mastery | Interview with April Ossmann by Susan MacDowell | March 30, 2017 and The Southeast Review.The Wayback Machine | An Interview with April Ossmann | The Southeast Review Online | By Amber Pearson | 08/06/2008

Personal Ossmann was born in Santa Barbara, California and raised there and in Richmond and Vacaville, California.Poets & Writers Directory, April Ossmann Listing She moved to Vermont in 1985, and worked her way through college as a waitress, receiving her A.B. from Dartmouth College in 1992, then earned her MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She currently lives and works in White River Junction, Vermont.Poets & Writers Directory | April Ossmann

References

ESSAY in Poets & Writers | Thinking Like an Editor: How to Order Your Poetry Manuscript | by April Ossmann | 02/28/2011

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