ALISON PALMER is the author of three poetry collections from Broadstone Books to include The Offing (2024), Bargaining with the Fall (2023), and Everything Is Normal Here (2022). The Need for Hiding is her 2018 debut chapbook from Dancing Girl Press. Alison’s work appears in journals such as FIELD, Crazyhorse, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Cimarron, Cincinnati Review, Rogue Agent and Columbia Poetry Review, among many others. Her most recently completed chapbook, The Missing Post Office, was named a finalist by Sixth Finch.

Currently, Alison has four full-length books, The Bird Calling This Evening to Another Bird, Proof, Phantom Animals, and Curators, circulating for publication.

She is a poet, a writer, an editor (currently accepting poetry and prose manuscripts!), and a teacher. Alison recently moved across the world with her wife to Iwakuni, Japan, where she is beginning to lead creative writing classes.

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.