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:

• Marianne Moore: Imaginary Possessions (Harvard University Press, 1981)^[3]
• Elizabeth Bishop: Questions of Mastery (Harvard University Press, 1991)^[5]
• Shifting Ground: Reinventing Landscape in Modern American Poetry (Harvard University Press, 2003)^[7]
• Planets on Tables: Poetry, Still Life and the Turning World (Cornell University Press, 2008)^[8]
• The Plural of Us: Poetry and Community in Auden and Others (Princeton University Press, 2017)^[6]

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.^[9]

Costello is a 1972 graduate of Bennington College.^[10] Her doctorate is from Cornell University, in 1977.^[10][11] She joined the Boston University faculty in 1977,^[10] and became Warren Distinguished Professor in 2017.^[2]

Costello was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2002.^[12] She also became a Guggenheim Fellow in 1990,^[13] and a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies in 2011.^[14]

Her book The Plural of Us: Poetry and Community in Auden and Others won the Warren–Brooks Award for 2017.^[11]