Alison Winfield-Burns

Poet, Creative Nonfiction Writer

Author's Bio

Alison ALICE Winfield Burns is an American painter who attended Columbia University (BS and BA) and the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. She is a PEN America grantee, 2012 and the author of memoir "Ivy League Bohemians." Her early writing teachers were Allen Ginsberg and Larry Fagin. Alison was formally betrothed to fellow poet Sam Kashner in 2010 and lives in Manhattan. Alison is the goddaughter of Lady Jeanne Campbell (daughter of the 11th Duke of Argyll and third wife of Norman Mailer) and of a Benedictine abbess in Rome. Alison's ancestors fought in the American Revolution.

Publications & Prizes

Creative Nonfiction

Journals:
Bombay Gin
,
Empty Mirror

Poetry

Anthology:
The List Poem: A Guide to Teaching & Writing Catalog Verse (Teachers & Writers Collaborative, 1991)
Journals:
Bombay Gin
,
Empty Mirror
,
Windhover
Prizes won: 

PEN America 2012 Grantee (Supported by Sam Kashner to write memoir "Ivy League Bohemians" contracted to Dynasty Press, London)

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Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Hemingway, Zola, Brontë, Keats, Ginsberg, Kerouac and F. Scott Fitzgerald.
What I'm reading now: 
Germinal (1894) by Emile Zola

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
American
Fluent in: 
English, Italian
Born in: 
NC
North Carolina
Raised in: 
Rome
Italy
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Last update: Aug 13, 2021