Blooming on the Borderline
Poet, Professor, Blogger, Abuse Recovery Coach
Anne M. Champion
Anne Champion is the author of This is a Story About Ghosts: A Memoir of Borderline Personality Disorder (KDP, 2024), Hunted Carrion: Sonnets to a Stalker (KDP, 2024), 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.
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Books
Poetry Collections
“Here is a poet who will not rest in easy consolations. Champion labors over the blurred (at times nonexistent) line separating faith from farce, violence from ecstasy.” Katie Kilcup
Book of Levitations
Trembling Pillow Press
Hunted Carrion
Kindle Direct Publishing
The Good Girl is Always a Ghost
Black Lawrence Press