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April Ossmann was executive director of Alice James Books from 2000 - 2008,
and
left to launch her consulting business, helping poets to get published. Since early 2009, she has been editing poems and book manuscripts, and offering publishing advice to poets hoping to find a publisher (or to self-publish).


She is the author of WE (Red Hen Press, April 15, 2025), Event Boundaries  (a finalist for the Vermont Book Award) and Anxious Music, both from Four Way Books, and has published poetry in numerous journals including New England Review, Harvard Review and Colorado Review, and in anthologies including From the Fishouse (Persea Books), and is the recipient of several awards for her poetry, including a 2013 Vermont Arts Council Creation Grant and a Prairie Schooner Readers' Choice Award. She has also published essays including Thinking Like an Editor: How to Order Your Poetry Manuscript (Poets & Writers, March/April 2011), and a biography/critical study of poet Lynda Hull in American Writers Supplement
XXI
(Charles Scribner’s Sons).


She was a faculty editor for the low-residency MFA in Creative Writing Program at Sierra Nevada College at Lake Tahoe, and teaches guest poetry workshops regionally, using a non-traditional workshop method she developed intended to teach poets to revise their work more objectively (as an editor would), and has taught creative writing and literature courses at Lebanon College and at the University of Maine at Farmington.

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