St. Louis Poetry Center

Allison Funk

Allison Funk has published three books of poems: The Knot Garden (Sheep Meadow Press, 2002); Living at the Epicenter (Northeastern University Press, 1995); and Forms of Conversion (Alice James Books, 1986).  She has received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and prizes from Poetry and the Poetry Society of America.  Her work has been included in The Best American Poetry; The Paris Review; Poetry; Shenandoah; Image; and other journals and anthologies.  She is Professor of English at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, where she is also an editor of Sou’wester.