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Listed as:

Poet

Public address:

Norfolk, VA

Virginia US

Email:

alisonhpalmer@gmail.com

Bio:

ALISON PALMER is the author of two full-length poetry collections, I Give You the Planets (Broadstone Books, forthcoming 2025) and Bargaining with the Fall (Broadstone Books, 2023), and three poetry chapbooks, The Offing (Broadstone Books, 2024), Everything Is Normal Here (Broadstone Books, 2022), and The Need for Hiding (Dancing Girl Press, 2018). Alison was chosen for a 2022 Independent Artist Award (IAA) grant by the Maryland State Arts Council (MSAC).

Alison received her MFA in Poetry from Washington University in St. Louis, and she was awarded the Emma Howell Memorial Poetry Prize from Oberlin College where she graduated with a BA in Creative Writing. She also studied Poetry through Syracuse University in Florence, Italy.

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

In which languages are you fluent?:

English

Favorite authors:

Virginia Woolf Stephen Dunn James Dickey Galway Kinnell Carl Phillips Anne Carson Nils Michals Alessandra Lynch C.D. Wright Louise Gluck Robert Lowell Charles Wright (delving into Proust and loving him)

Born in:

Fairfax, VA

Virginia

Raised in:

Charleston , SC

South Carolina

Website:

https://alisonpalmer.org [2]

Prizes won:

Finalist, Sexton Prize, Eyewear Publishing, The Alarmist, full-length, spring 2019
Nimrod Literary Awards: Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry Quarter-Finalist, 2018
Pushcart Prize Nomination, “Flight,” 2016
Best New Poets Nomination, “Flight,” 2016
Winner, Atlantis Poetry Award, Poet’s Billow, spring 2016
Finalist, Bermuda Triangle Prize and Pangaea Prize, Poet’s Billow, fall 2014
Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, summer 2012
Top 50 Best New Poets 2010 as chosen by Claudia Emerson
Nominated for the AWP Intro Journals Project, 2007 and 2008
Finalist, The Laurel Review's Midwest Chapbook Series Award, 2007
Emma Howell Memorial Poetry Prize, Oberlin College, 2005
Coluccio Salutati Prize for Academic Excellence, Syracuse University in Florence, Italy, 2004

Education:

Washington University

What I'm reading now:

Swann's Way: In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust

My Trade Is My Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing by Carl Phillips

Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light by Joy Harjo

Everything Else in the World by Stephen Dunn

Robert Lowell: Setting the River on Fire by Kay Redfield Jamison

The Carrying by Aida Limon

Writers Retreats:

Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference

Prefers to work with:

Any