Bonnie Costello

Professor and Author

Bonnie Costello is Professor of English and William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor at Boston University. She is the author of many books and articles on modern poetry, most recently The Plural of Us: Poetry and Community in Auden and Others (Princeton UP, 2017 winner of the Robert Penn Warren-Cleanth Brooks Award). She has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2004.

Bonnie also writes literary essays on travel, art, place, and environment. Her creative work has appeared in The Yale Review, Salmagundi, The Gettysburg Review, Terrain.org, Solstice, Literary Imagination, World Literature Today, The Southern Review (noted in Best American Essays), among others. Her current project is a collection of fables based on plants and animals around her Berkshire home.

Her essay “Sights on a Visit to Chile” won the 2020 Travel Writing Award from Nowhere Magazine.  https://nowheremag.com/2021/01/sights-on-a-visit-to-chile/