In Small Gods of Grief, Laure-Anne Bosselaar explores her childhood in post-war Belgium and her later struggles with grief, love and identity in contemporary America. Ms. Bosselaar mixes imaginative lyrics, narratives and dramatic monologues in this empathetic account of what it means to be human.

Laure-Anne Bosselaar, a native a Belgium, has lived throughout Europe and the United States. Fluent in four languages, she has worked for Belgian and Luxembourg radio and television stations. Ms. Bosselaar's first poetry collection was the critically-acclaimed The Hour Between Dog and Wolf (BOA). She is an editor of poetry anthologies and is translating American poetry into French. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.