Anne Babson received a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and has a terminal degree in writing from The City College of New York, where she studied under the great poet Marilyn Hacker. She remains ABD in English at the University of Mississippi with a focus on Middle English and Middle French Literature. Anne Babson is the author of five full length collections of poetry, The White Trash Pantheon (Vox Press, 2014), which won the Colby H. Kullman Award at the Southern Writers/Southern Writing Conference, Polite Occasions (Unsolicited Press, 2018), Messiah, (Saint Julian Press, 2019), The Bunker Book (Unsolicited Press, 2022), and a forthcoming collection entitled Crossing State Lines, under contract to be published in 2026. She is the author of multiple poetry chapbooks as well. Her individual poems have appeared in literary journals on five continents. She is the librettist to the opera Lotus Lives, Su Lian Tan, composer, which has been produced in New York, Boston, Montreal, and several college towns and continues to be produced in other venues. She wrote the play Reenactment, which was published by Review Americana. She has written several short stories that have appeared in literary journals. She served as President of the Women’s National Book Association of New Orleans from 2022 to 2025. She served on the editorial board of the literary journal Peauxdunque Review from 2022 to 2024. She has taught at Southeastern Louisiana University since 2016.
Her scholarly articles on literary works as diverse as Christine de Pisan, The Mikado, and Jimmy Santiago Baca have appeared in scholarly journals and anthologies in both England and the United States.
