Dana Roeser fourth book, All Transparent Things Need Thundershirts, won the Wilder Prize at Two Sylvias Press and was published in 2019. Earlier books have won the Juniper Prize, as well as the Morse Poetry Prize, twice. Among her many awards and honors are the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award, the Jenny McKean Moore Writer-in-Washington Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, and numerous residencies in the U.S. and abroad. She teaches in the MFA program in poetry at Butler University and has also been a visiting writer in the MFA programs at Purdue and Wichita State Universities.