Rose Mary Prosen (November 5, 1931 – July 17, 2008) was a Slovene-American poet and essayist.
Prosen was born to Slovene parents who emigrated from Lower Carniola in present-day Slovenia to Newburgh, Ohio, a village annexed by the city of Cleveland.
As an essayist she published several articles, including the 1974 "Ethnic Literature" – Of Whom and for Whom.
[2] Prosen won the 1975 Hart Crane Memorial Poetry Prize.
[3] Her short memoir Looking Back: Newburgh won the first prize for the 1976 Growing Up Slavic in America competition.