Allison Joseph
Allison Joseph lives, writes and teaches in Carbondale, Illinois, where she directs the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. She also serves as editor and poetry editor of Crab Orchard Review, a national journal of literary works, and director of the Young Writers Workshop, a coed residential creative writing summer workshop for high-school aged writers. She also serves as moderator of the Creative Writers Opportunities List, an online list-serve that distributes calls for submissions and literary contest information to over 3000 writers free of charge. She is the author of five books of poems: What Keeps Us Here (1992, winner of the Ampersand Press Women Poets Series Prize and the John C. Zacharis Prize from Ploughshares and Emerson College), Soul Train (1997, Carnegie Mellon University Press), In Every Seam (1997, University of Pittsburgh Press), Imitation of Life (2003, Carnegie Mellon UP), and Worldly Pleasures (2004, winner of the Word Press Poetry Prize). She is also the author of a chapbook, Voice: Poems, published in 2009 by Mayapple Press. Her next full-length poetry collection, My Father's Kites, will be published in 2010 by Steel Toe Books. She has received fellowships and awards from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, the Sewanee Writers Conference and the Illinois Arts Council.
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