Rosanna Warren is a Professor (Emerita) at the University of Chicago. She is the author of a memoir, The Fair Fields, and seven books of poetry, including Hindsight (2025), So Forth (2020), and Ghost in a Red Hat (2011). Her biography of Max Jacob, Max Jacob: A Life in Art and Letters, appeared in October 2020. A former Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and a Berlin Fellow, she has received awards from the Academy of American Poets, The American Academy of Arts & Letters, the Lila Wallace Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the New England Poetry Club, among others.
To celebrate the publication of The Fair Fields, she will read in the Rotunda Dome Room on February 11, 2027. Early seating is highly recommended.
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