J. Allyn Rosser is an American poet and is Professor Emerita of English Literature and Creative Writing at Ohio University. She has published four books of poetry, and her fifth collection, Chronic Transience, is forthcoming from Unbound Edition Press in September 2025. Her first three collections won the Morse Prize, the Crab Orchard Prize, and the New Criterion Poetry Prize. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim and Lannan foundations, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Bread Loaf, and Yaddo. Her poems are published widely in journals and anthologies, and appear in five editions of Best American Poetry. She served as the editor of New Ohio Review for eight years.