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Roberta Senechal de la Roche
1 piece in The Esthetic Apostle
About Roberta Senechal de la Roche
Roberta Senechal de la Roche is an historian, sociologist, and poet of Micmac and French Canadian descent, and was born in western Maine. She now lives in the woods outside of Charlottesville, Virginia near the Blue Ridge Mountains. She graduated from the University of Southern Maine and the University of Virginia, and is Professor of History at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. Her poems have appeared in the Colorado Review; Vallum; Glass: A Journal of Poetry; Fredericksburg Literary and Art Review; Yemassee, and Cold Mountain Review, among others. Her chapbook, Blind Flowers, won the 2016 Arcadia Press Chapbook Prize, and her latest chapbook, Winter Light, will be published in 2018 by David Robert Press – who also will publish her first full-length volume, Going Fast, in 2019.