Rosa Lane

Rosa Lane is a poet from coastal Maine whose family roots are in lobster fishing. She now splits her time between Maine and the San Francisco Bay Area. Her debut collection, Tiller North, was published by Sixteen Rivers Press in 2016 and won the 2017 National Indie Excellence Award in Poetry. Her later books include Chouteau's Chalk and Called Back. Called Back, a collection in queer conversation with Emily Dickinson, won the 2025 Maine Literary Book Award. Her poems have appeared in journals such as Ploughshares and Nimrod.