Ellen Bass has published several poetry collections: Mules of Love, a Lambda Literary Award winner; The Human Line, a San Francisco Chronicle Notable Book; Like a Beggar; and Indigo, a New York Times New and Notable Book. She coedited one of the first anthologies to highlight feminist poetry, the groundbreaking No More Masks! Her nonfiction books include the best-selling The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse, translated into ten languages. Among her many awards are three Pushcart Prizes and the Pablo Neruda Prize. A chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Bass teaches in the MFA writing program at Pacific University.
Photograph by Irene Young.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- Pale Blue Vein, poetry, in Winter 2024
- Because What We Do Does Not Die, poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2018–2019
- How It Began and Other Poems, poetry, in Fall 2018
- Listening and Other Poems, poetry, in Spring 2017
- Ode to Repetition, poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2012–2013
- Prayer, an ipoem, in Spring 2013
- Four Poems, poetry, in Winter 2014