Blooming on the Borderline

Poet, Professor, Blogger, Abuse Recovery Coach

Anne M. Champion

Anne Champion is the author of She Saints & Holy Profanities (Quarterly West, 2019), The Good Girl is Always a Ghost (Black Lawrence Press, 2018), Book of Levitations (Trembling Pillow Press, 2019), Reluctant Mistress (Gold Wake Press, 2013), and The Dark Length Home (Noctuary Press, 2017). Her work appears in Verse Daily, diode, Tupelo Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, Crab Orchard Review, Salamander, New South, Redivider, PANK Magazine, and elsewhere.  She was a 2009 Academy of American Poets Prize recipient, a 2016 Best of the Net winner, a Barbara Deming Memorial Grant recipient, and a Pushcart Prize nominee. She received a BA in English Literature and a BS in Behavioral Psychology from Western Michigan University and an MFA in poetry from Emerson College. She’s been a professor of English and the humanities for 16 years.

Champion experienced childhood trauma and developed Borderline Personality Disorder. She blogs about mental health, abuse recovery, trauma bonding, and cluster b personality disorders and is a top writer on the subjects on Medium and Quora.