ALISON PALMER is the author of The Offing (Broadstone Books, 2024), Bargaining with the Fall (2023), Everything Is Normal Here (2022), and The Need for Hiding (Dancing Girl Press, 2018). Her work has appeared in journals such as FIELD, Crazyhorse, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Cimarron, Cincinnati Review, Rogue Agent and Columbia Poetry Review.

She is a poet, a writer, an editor (currently accepting poetry and prose manuscripts!), and she teaches poetry workshops in Virginia.

Alison is a Pushcart Prize nominee and a 2022 recipient of a Maryland State Arts Council Independent Artist Award. She holds an MFA in Poetry from Washington University in St. Louis and a BA in Creative Writing from Oberlin College, where she was awarded the Emma Howell Memorial Poetry Prize. Alison also studied Poetry through Syracuse University in Florence, Italy.