The Visiting Author Series at Petals & Pages Presents: Corie Rosen

Join us to celebrate the release of Corie Rosen's latest book of poetry, Wildfire.

"Corie Rosen's new collection of poems, Wildfire, is a book full of portent and wonder, exploring the ineffable in everything from a root canal to a grandmother's instructions on how to boil an egg. Rosen's world is one of meaning and wisdom, all underscored with the important question, How are we to live?-especially in the shadow of ancestral trauma and loss. Full of longing and intricate prose, Rosen's poems delight as much as they intrigue. This is a gorgeous collection."

-Erika Krouse, author of Save Me, Stranger

Corie Rosen is a fiction writer and poet. Her work has been nominated for the National Book Award, for the Pushcart Prize, and has been a finalist for the Katherine Anne Porter Prize for fiction. She grew up in the greater Los Angeles area and attended UC Berkeley. At Berkeley, she studied with MacArthur Genius and Pulitzer Prize finalist Ishmael Reed, who told her she was among the very best young writers he had ever encountered. Her writing has appeared in dozens of literary journals and has also been anthologized, taught in schools, and featured on NPR. She is a member of Denver’s Lighthouse Writers Workshop and reads fiction and poetry for The North American Review and Salamander Magazine. Her first book of poems, Words for Things Left Unsaid, was published by Aldrich Press in 2020 and nominated for the National Book Award. Her second book of poems, Wildfire, is forthcoming from Cornerstone Press/University of Wisconsin in September of 2025.

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