ALISON PALMER is the author of I Give You the Planets (Broadstone Books, forthcoming 2025), The Offing (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, and Columbia Poetry Review.

She is an Editor at Broadstone Books and also teaches hybrid/virtual poetry workshops and writing seminars for The Muse Writers Center.

Alison was chosen for a 2022 Independent Artist Award (IAA) grant by the Maryland State Arts Council (MSAC). She received her MFA in Poetry from Washington University in St. Louis and was awarded the Emma Howell Memorial Poetry Prize from Oberlin College where she graduated with a BA in Creative Writing. Alison also studied Poetry through Syracuse University in Florence, Italy.