Alison Powell
is a poet, essayist, and scholar. Her work has been featured on PBS NewsHour, Environmental Health News, and www.poets.org, and supported by institutions including the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA), Fine Arts Work Center of Provincetown, Rockvale Writer’s Colony, Crosshatch Center for Arts and Ecology, and more.
She is the author of two collections of poetry, including Boats in the Attic, (Editor’s Prize, Poets Out Loud / Poetic Justice Institute contest, Fordham University Press 2022). A chapbook of lyric essays titled The Art of Perpetuation was published by Black Lawrence Press in 2020. Her poems and lyric essays have recently appeared in Oxford Poetry Review, Greensboro Review, A Public Space, The Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, Black Warrior Review, Cincinnati Review, Copper Nickel, Michigan Quarterly Review, and elsewhere.
Powell received her PhD in English Literature from the CUNY Graduate Center in New York, where her scholarship focused on the relationship between play, morality, and aesthetics in the Romantic poets. She lives in New Jersey, where she is Associate Teaching Professor of Creative Writing at Rutgers University.