Rosanna Warren is a Professor Emerita at the University of Chicago. She is the author of seven books of poetry—most recently, Hindsight, So Forth, and Ghost in a Red Hat—and the biography, Max Jacob: A Life in Art and Letters. Her awards include prizes from the Academy of American Poets, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Lila Wallace Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation.

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