Austin LaGrone

Austin LaGrone is a poet born in Baton Rouge who now lives in Stockholm, Sweden. He holds degrees from St. John's College and New York University. His collection Oyster Perpetual won the 2010 Idaho Prize for Poetry and was published by Lost Horse Press in 2011. His poems have appeared in Black Warrior Review, Crazyhorse, Gulf Coast, and Prairie Schooner, among others. Call Me When You Get to Rosie's won the 2016 Bitter Oleander Library of Poetry Award and was published by Bitter Oleander Press. It was also named in the Washington Independent Review of Books' June 2017 best-books list.