Ann Townsend

Ann Townsend is the author of Dear Delinquent (Sarabande Books, 2019), The Coronary Garden (Sarabande Books, 2005), and Dime Store Erotics (Silverfish Review Press, 1998) and is editor, with David Baker of Radiant Lyre: Essays on Lyric Poetry (Graywolf Press, 2007).
The recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ohio Arts Council, she has also received fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Bernheim Arboretum, and the Lannan Foundation. Her poetry and essays have been published widely. She is the co-founder of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts. In 2016 she, along with VIDA cofounders Cate Marvin and Erin Belieu, accepted the Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award, given in recognition of their work for the larger literary community.