Margaret Rozga

Margaret Rozga is a life-long Wisconsin resident and the Wisconsin Poet Laureate from 2019-2020. She is the author of five full-length poetry collections, including Holding My Selves Together: New and Selected Poems (Cornerstone Press 2021), which received an honorable mention for the Edna Meundt Poetry Book Award at the 2021 Wisconsin Writers Awards. Her work was nominated for inclusion in the 2005 Best New Poets anthology and for a Pushcart Prize, and her first book, 200 Nights and One Day ...See more

Margaret Rozga is a life-long Wisconsin resident and the Wisconsin Poet Laureate from 2019-2020. She is the author of five full-length poetry collections, including Holding My Selves Together: New and Selected Poems (Cornerstone Press 2021), which received an honorable mention for the Edna Meundt Poetry Book Award at the 2021 Wisconsin Writers Awards. Her work was nominated for inclusion in the 2005 Best New Poets anthology and for a Pushcart Prize, and her first book, 200 Nights and One Day (2009), was awarded a bronze medal in poetry in the 2009 Independent Publishers Book Awards and named an outstanding achievement in poetry for 2009 by the Wisconsin Library Association. Rozga has also been a resident at Shake Rag Alley; the Sundress Academy of the Arts; Write On, Door County; the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology; and the Ragdale Foundation, as well as a creative writing fellow at the American Antiquarian Society. She lives in Milwaukee. See less