About Diane Raptosh


diane raptosh A graduate of the University of Michigan MFA Program, Diane Raptosh’s fourth book of poetry, American Amnesiac (Etruscan Press), was longlisted for the 2013 National Book Award and was a finalist for the Housatonic Book Award. The recipient of three fellowships in literature from the Idaho Commission on the Arts, she served as the Boise Poet Laureate (2013) as well as the Idaho Writer-in-Residence (2013-2016). In 2018 she won the Idaho Governor’s Arts Award in Excellence.

A highly active ambassador for poetry, she has given poetry workshops everywhere from riverbanks to maximum security prisons. She teaches literature and creative writing and co-directs the program in Criminal Justice/Prison Studies at the College of Idaho. Dear Z: The Zygote Epistles was released by Etruscan Press in July 2020. Etruscan Press will publish her seventh book, Run: A Verse History of Victoria Woodhull, in spring 2021 as part of a trio of works by contemporary female poets.

Find her National Poetry Foundation bio here:

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/diane-raptosh