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, Ontario, 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, eds. (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, eds. (2000). American Poetry: the next generation. Carnegie Mellon University Press. ISBN 978-0-88748-343-1.
References
- 1 2 "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
- Interview: Perspectives - Spring 2003 - UNBLINKING Interview with Allison Joseph by Marilyn Davis
- Interview: Blackbird - January 13, 2006 - An Interview with Allison Joseph
- Interview: Callaloo - Kendra Hamilton Interviews Allison Joseph - Volume 19, Number 2, Spring 1996, pp. 461-472
- Poems: "Conservative Love in the Age of Obama", Starting Today, March 6, 2009
- Poem: Valparisio Poetry Review - Little Epiphanies by Allison Joseph
- Author Page: Mayapple Press - Allison Joseph
- Audio Reading: Blackbird Archive - A Reading by Allison Joseph