Allison Joseph

Allison Joseph received a BA from Kenyon College and an MFA from Indiana University–Bloomington.

Joseph is the author of several poetry collections, including Lexicon (Red Hen Press, 2018), Confessions of a Barefaced Woman (Red Hen Press, 2018); Worldly Pleasures (Word Press, 2004); and What Keeps Us Here (Ampersand, 1992), winner of the John C. Zacharis First Book Award.

Joseph has received fellowships and awards from the Illinois Arts Council. She teaches at and directs the Southern Illinois University–Carbondale MFA program in creative writing, where she also serves as the editor-in-chief and poetry editor of Crab Orchard Review. She lives in Carbondale, Illinois.