About the Author

Roseann St. Aubin is a native of Wisconsin who enjoyed successful early careers in television journalism, city government and public school district communications. She also worked as a free-lance writer and media trainer, assisting TV and radio professionals in bettering their performance skills.

Writing is her first love. Once away from the business world, she served for 9 years as a co-editor of Rockvale Review, an online poetry and fiction journal. Her own work has been published in Oyster River Pages, the Blue Heron Review and other publications.

Roseann St.Aubin is a member of the Milwaukee Press Club Hall of Fame, the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets and the Arizona State Poetry Society. She makes her home in Port Washington, Wisconsin, along the inspiring shore of Lake Michigan.

Read more about Roseann in the Ozaukee Press.

Roseann St. Aubin is a native of Wisconsin who enjoyed successful early careers in television journalism, city government and public school district communications. She also worked as a free-lance writer and media trainer, assisting TV and radio professionals in bettering their performance skills.

Writing is her first love. Once away from the business world, she served for 9 years as a co-editor of Rockvale Review, an online poetry and fiction journal. Her own work has been published in Oyster River Pages, the Blue Heron Review and other publications.

Roseann St.Aubin is a member of the Milwaukee Press Club Hall of Fame, the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets and the Arizona State Poetry Society. She makes her home in Port Washington, Wisconsin, along the inspiring shore of Lake Michigan.

The Work

Origin

I am a stew of humble, brilliant things. A stone soup.

An amalgam of varied histories, a fusion of my people's

drift and flight and passage. I carry the genes for

brown eyes and red hair. I am a wearer of scapulars.

I come from the seacoast of France. I ran from

starvation and plague in Dieppe. Wearing my father's

craggy coat, because my father had died, I slept in the

salt spray of the Atlantic an open deck.

I was born in the belly of Slovakia, grown up on

kapustnica and cinnamon chimney cakes. I knew the breathy

notes of the shepherd's flute, and I knew the sheep, too,

generous with their fleece, complaint at the butcher's blade.

I descend from stern women with broad bosoms.

They cleaned fish and fried chicken feet and added

caraway to sauerkraut. And I come from men who

grieved their women's deaths in childbirth.

I was a farmer in Wallonia, Belgium. I was a teenaged

Canadian lying about my age to fight with the US when

the whole world was a war for the first time. I was a tailor in

northern Wisconsin. I was a rubber worker in Akron.

My people's stories are vast and wild, brief and unadorned.

Their stories are mine. I am a squat figure of red fired clay,

a Pueblo totem for oral tradition. I am a prayer for identity,

an augury for the path ahead.

Publications

Available Now

Blue Boat, Story Poems from the Midwest, is the 2026 debut collection of poems by Roseann St.Aubin. The author opens a door to her beloved Wisconsin with poems recognizing family and nature, love, life and loss

Blue Boat is available in ebook and paperback at Amazon. The audiobook can be found at Audible, Spotify, and other audio-hosting forums globally.

In Port Washington, Wisconsin, Blue Boat is sold at Verbosity Bookhouse.

Get in Touch

Please get in touch if you have a question or request.

I am open to collaboration, poetry events, teaching and other inquiries.

roseann@rstaubin.com