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APRIL OSSMANN CONSULTING
April
Ossmann was executive director of Alice James Books from 2000 - 2008,
and left to launch her consulting business, helping poets to get
published. She edits book manuscripts for and offers publishing advice
to poets hoping to find a publisher (or to self-publish).
She is the author of Anxious Music (Four Way Books, 2007), and has published poetry in
numerous journals including Prairie Schooner, The Spoon River
Poetry Review,Harvard Review and Seneca Review, and in anthologies including From the Fishouse (Persea Books, 2009), and is the
recipient of several awards for her poetry, including a Prairie Schooner
Readers' Choice Award for ten poems published in the Summer 2000 issue of Prairie
Schooner.
She teaches poetry workshops at The Writer's Center
in White River
Junction, Vermont, 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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