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.