Allison Joseph currently lives in Carbondale, Illinois, where she co-directs the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Southern Illinois University. She serves as poetry editor of Crab Orchard Review and director of the Young Writers Workshop, a summer conference for teen writers. Her books include i<>What Keeps Us Here (winner of the Ampersand Press Women Poets Series Prize and the John C. Zacharis Prize), Soul Train (Carnegie Mellon), In Every Seam (Pittsburgh), Imitation of Life (Carnegie Mellon), Worldly Pleasures (winner of the Word Press Poetry Prize) and Voice: Poems (Mayapple Press). Her most recent poetry collection, My Father's Kites, was published in 2010 by Steel Toe Books. A new chapbook, Trace Particles, was published in 2014 by Backbone Press.

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