Lois Rosen

Lois Rosen grew up in Yonkers, New York. She loves living in Salem with her husband and cat.

During decades of teaching E.S.L. at Chemekata Community College, she co-directed the Advanced Institute of the Oregon Writers' Project at Willamette and served on the board. She's taught in Japan, Columbia, Costa Rica, and Ecuador.

Lois received an MFA in fiction from the Rainier Writing Workshop, where she won a Deborah Tall Memorial Scholarship. She's been awarded residencies at The Anderson Center, Vermont Studio Center, Centrum, and Soapstone.

As a Visiting Assistant Professor of English, she's offered a class in creative writing at Willamette University. For Willamette's Institute for Continued Learning, she selects, invites, and introduces visiting writers. She's a founding member of Salem's Peregrine Poets and appreciates their superb critiques, as well as the advice of many skilled local writers.

In 2004, Traprock Books published her first poetry book, Pigeons. Her poems and stories have appeared widely in journals including: Calyx, Alimentum, Many Mountains Moving, Northwest Review, Hubbub, Willow Springs, and Raven Chronicles. Her E.S.L. textbook, Goodbye, Lovely Land, was published by the Oregon State Board of Higher Education. Her novel-in-stories manuscript, Junior Lifesaving, is in search of a publisher.

Aurelia Aurita: Moon Jelly

Autumn Retreat on the Breitenbush River

Pantoum for Dorothy at 92

Untoppled