Allison Joseph

Allison Joseph (born 1967) is an American poet, editor and professor. She is author of six poetry collections, most recently, My Father's Kites: Poems (Steel Toe Books, 2010).

Biography

Born in London to parents of Jamaican heritage, Allison Joseph grew up in Toronto, Canada, and the Bronx.^[1] She graduated from Kenyon College with a B.A., and from Indiana University with an M.F.A.^[1] She teaches at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and is Director of the Young Writers Workshop at SIUC, which she founded in 1999: a four-day summer program for high school students. Many of SIUC's creative writing faculty and graduate students are involved with the workshop, and the student participants come from several states.^[2]^[3] In 1995, she was one of the founding editors of Crab Orchard Review as the magazine's poetry editor and has also worked as editor-in-chief since August 2001. She lives in Carbondale, Illinois.

Honors and awards

1992 John C. Zacharis First Book Award
2009 Aquarius Press Legacy Award ^[4]
Literary Award from the Illinois Arts Council
Breadloaf Writers' Conference Fellowship
Sewanee Writers' Conference Fellowship
Academy of American Poets prize
Ruth Lilly Fellowship
Associated Writing Programs Prize

Published works

Full-Length Poetry Collections

My Father's Kites: Poems. Steel Toe Books. 2010. ISBN 978-0-9824169-2-1.
Voice: Poems. Mayapple Press. 2009. ISBN 978-0-932412-75-1.
Imitation of life: poems. Carnegie Mellon. 2003. ISBN 978-0-88748-386-8.
Soul Train. Carnegie Mellon University Press. 1997. ISBN 978-0-88748-247-2.
In Every Seam. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1997. ISBN 978-0-8229-3994-8.
What Keeps Us Here. Ampersand. 1992. ISBN 978-0-935331-11-0.
Worldly Pleasures. WordTech Communications. 2004. ISBN 978-1-932339-12-3.

Anthology Publications

New Sister Voices: Poetry by American Women of African Descent
Pamela Gemin, Paula Sergi, ed. (1999). Boomer Girls: poems by women from the baby boom generation. University of Iowa Press. ISBN 978-0-87745-687-2.
Gerald Costanzo, Jim Daniels, ed. (2000). American Poetry: the next generation. Carnegie Mellon University Press. ISBN 978-0-88748-343-1.

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 "Allison Joseph Continues Fall Poetry Series", Columbia College, Chicago, October 23, 2003.
↑ Interview: Perspectives - Spring 2003 - UNBLINKING Interview with Allison Joseph by Marilyn Davis
↑ Young Writers Workshop Homepage
↑ Andrea Hahn (August 20, 2009). "Allison Joseph wins Aquarius Press Legacy Award". The Saluki Times.

External links

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