Allison Joseph

Allison Joseph (born 1967 London) 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). She grew up in Toronto 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 University'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

• 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, ed (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, ed (2000). American poetry: the next generation. Carnegie Mellon University Press. ISBN 978-0-88748-343-1. 

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