Alise Alousi
Alise Alousi is an Iraqi American poet[1] living in Detroit and is also director of Alternatives for Girls, a local program to keep young women from dropping out of school.[2] Born to an Iraqi father, Alousi still has relatives in Iraq.[3]
As an Arab American poet, Alousi is also associate director of InsideOut Literary Arts Project, a creative writing program serving Detroit's youth. Her work has recently appeared in Inclined to Speak: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Poetry and will appear in Mutanabbi Street Starts Here late in 2009.[4]
She is a member of Women in Black in Detroit.
Works
- What to Count
- Alley of Thieves
- In Baghdad