Allison Joseph

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Name Allison Joseph		Role Poet

Education Indiana University Bloomington, Kenyon College Awards John C. Zacharis First Book Award Books My Father's Kites: Poems, In Every Seam, Worldly Pleasures, Soul Train, Voice: Poems Similar People Nikky Finney, Elizabeth Alexander, Natasha Trethewey, Rita Dove, Terrance Hayes

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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).

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Biography

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Born in London to parents of Jamaican heritage, Allison Joseph grew up in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and the Bronx. She graduated from Kenyon College with a B.A., and from Indiana University with an M.F.A. 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. 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

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1992 John C. Zacharis First Book Award

2009 Aquarius Press Legacy Award

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. CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)

Gerald Costanzo, Jim Daniels, eds. (2000). American Poetry: the next generation. Carnegie Mellon University Press. ISBN 978-0-88748-343-1. CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)

References

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