Allison Joseph Explained

Allison Joseph
Birth Place:London, England
Occupation:Poet, educator
Education:Kenyon College
Indiana University
Nationality:American

Allison Joseph (born 1967) is an American poet, editor and professor. She is author of eight full-length poetry collections, most recently, Confessions of a Bare-Faced Woman (Red Hen Press, 2018).

Biography

Born in London, England, to parents of Jamaican heritage, Allison Joseph grew up in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and the Bronx, New York.[1] 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 (SIUC), 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.[2] [3] In 1995, she was one of the founding editors of Crab Orchard Review as the magazine's poetry editor and has worked as editor-in-chief since August 2001. She is also the publisher and founder of No Chair Press.[4] She lives in Carbondale, Illinois. Joseph will be teaching at the Poetry Seminar for The Frost Place in August 2021.

For more than thirty years, Joseph was married to fellow poet Jon Tribble, with whom she co-founded Crab Orchard Review. Tribble died in October 2019.[5]

Honors and awards

Published works

Full-length poetry collections

Chapbook collections

Anthology publications

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: "Allison Joseph Continues Fall Poetry Series", Columbia College, Chicago, October 23, 2003. . July 26, 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141212134536/http://blogs.colum.edu/press-releases/2003/10/23/allison-joseph-continues-fall-poetry-series/ . December 12, 2014 . dead .
  2. Web site: Interview: Perspectives - Spring 2003 - UNBLINKING Interview with Allison Joseph by Marilyn Davis . November 7, 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090614092555/http://perspect.siuc.edu/03_sp/joseph.html . June 14, 2009 . dead .
  3. https://www.angelfire.com/il/yww/ Young Writers Workshop Homepage
  4. Web site: No Chair Press . About the Publisher . November 28, 2017.
  5. Web site: Jon Tribble. 2020-09-27. The Southern. 9 October 2019 . en.
  6. Web site: Independent Press Award announces the 2020 Winners . Independent Press Award . 2020-05-29.
  7. News: Allison Joseph wins Aquarius Press Legacy Award . August 20, 2009 . Andrea Hahn . The Saluki Times . November 7, 2009 . https://archive.today/20120718184931/http://news.siuc.edu/news/August09/082009amh9152.html . July 18, 2012 . dead .