Alysse McCanna

Poet

CO
Colorado US
Website: 
www.alyssemccanna.com
Twitter/X: 
@alyssekathleen

Author's Bio

Alysse Kathleen McCanna is the author of FishWife (Black Lawrence Press, 2024). Her poetry has appeared in North American Review, The Rumpus, Poet Lore, TriQuarterly, and other journals. Alysse’s chapbook Pentimento won the 2017 Gold Line Press Poetry Chapbook Competition. Her work has been supported by the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, Tucson Festival of Books, New York State Summer Writers Institute, and Sundress Academy for the Arts. She holds a PhD in English from Oklahoma State University, an MFA from Bennington College, and serves as Associate Editor of Pilgrimage Magazine. Alysse is an Associate Professor of English at Colorado Mountain College in the Vail Valley

Education: 
Bennington Writing Seminars at Bennington College MFA
Oklahoma State University PhD
Writers Retreats: 
Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference and Bookfair
New York State Summer Writers Institute
Vermont Studio Center

Publications & Prizes

Book:
FishWife (Black Lawrence Press, 2024)
Prizes won: 

Winner 

Poetry Contest, So to Speak: feminist journal of language and art, judged by t’ai freedom ford, 2020. 

Chapbook Competition, Gold Line Press, 2017. 

Liam Rector Poetry Prize, Bennington College, 2015. 

Winter Poetry Contest, Sixfold Literary Journal, 2013. 

Mark Fischer Poetry Prize, 2010. 

Elizabeth Babcock Poetry Prize, Smith College, 2007. 

 

Runner Up 

Key West Literary Seminars Emerging Writer Awards, Scotti Merrill Award for Poetry, 2022. 

Grist ProForma Contest, April 2021. 

 

Finalist 

Prize in Poetry, Ghost Peach Press, October 2022. 

Antivenom Poetry Award, Elixir Press, March 2022. 

Barrow Street Book Prize, Barrow Street Press, January 2022. 

Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards, 2022. 

Indiana Review 1/2K Prize, September 2020. 

Dogwood Literary Prize, Dogwood: A Journal of Poetry and Prose, 2018. 

Moon City Poetry Award, Moon City Press, 2017. 

Chapbook Contest, The Center for Book Arts, 2017. 

Best of the Net, Sundress Publications, 2017. 

Edna St. Vincent Millay Poetry Prize, The Tishman Review, 2017. 

First Book Contest, Autumn House Press, 2016. 

Chapbook Contest, Iron Horse Literary Review, 2016. 

Chapbook Contest, Coal Hill Review, 2015. 

 

Semi-Finalist 

Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize, October 2022. 

Perugia Press Prize, March 2022. 

2021 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry, Anhinga Press. 

Perugia Press Prize, March 2021. 

Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards, 2020. 

Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry, Persea Books, 2018. 

Brittingham & Felix Pollak Prizes in Poetry, University of Wisconsin Press, 2016. 

Emerging Poets Contest, Boulevard, 2016. 

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
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Last update: Jul 19, 2024