Alexis Ivy is a 2018 recipient of the Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship in Poetry, awarded for her crown of sonnets, "The A-Street Shelter." Her first poetry collection, Romance with Small-Time Crooks, was published in 2013 by BlazeVOX [books]. A Boston native, her poems have been displayed in City Hall and featured by Mass Poetry aboard the red line subway. Her work has appeared in J Journal, Borderlands, Worcester Review, Lake Effect, Exit 7, Saranac Review, among other magazines and anthologies. She works as an advocate for the homeless in Cambridge and teaches in the PoemWorks community.

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