Bonnie Costello

Bonnie Costello (born 1950)[1] is an American literary scholar, currently the William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor of English at Boston University.

[2] Her books include works on the poets Marianne Moore,[3][4] Elizabeth Bishop,[5] and W. H. Auden,[6] and the relation of visual art to poetry through landscape painting[7] and still life.

[8] Costello's books include: With Celeste Goodridge and Cristanne Miller she edited The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore (Knopf, 1997)[4], which The New York Times listed as one of the notable books of 1997.

[10][11] She joined the Boston University faculty in 1977,[10] and became Warren Distinguished Professor in 2017.

[14] Her book The Plural of Us: Poetry and Community in Auden and Others won the Warren–Brooks Award for 2017.