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
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.
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