Rose Solari

Rose Solari (Poet) is the author of three full-length collections of poetry, The Last Girl, Orpheus in the Park, and Difficult Weather; the one-act play, Looking for Guenevere, and a novel, A Secret Woman. She has lectured and taught writing workshops at many institutions, including Arizona State University’s Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing; the University of Maryland, College Park; St. John’s College, Annapolis; the Jung Society of Washington; and the Centre for Creative Writing at Oxford University’s Kellogg College. As an actor, she has appeared in staged readings as the title character in two Grace Cavalieri plays: Anna and Mary Wollstonecraft: Hyena in Petticoats. In her writing for the stage, she has collaborated with modern dance artists, composers, and musicians. Her awards include the Randall Jarrell Poetry Prize, and Academy of American Poets’ University Prize, The Columbia Book Award, an EMMA award for excellence in journalism, and multiple grants.