Allison Joseph
{{short description|American poet, editor and professor (born 1967)}}
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Indiana University Bloomington
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Allison Joseph (born 1967) is an American poet, editor and professor. She is author of eight full-length poetry collections, most recently, Confessions of a Bare-Faced Woman (Red Hen Press, 2018).
Biography
Born in London, England, to parents of Jamaican heritage, Allison Joseph grew up in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and the Bronx, New York.{{Cite web |url=http://blogs.colum.edu/press-releases/2003/10/23/allison-joseph-continues-fall-poetry-series/ |title="Allison Joseph Continues Fall Poetry Series", Columbia College, Chicago, October 23, 2003. |access-date=July 26, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141212134536/http://blogs.colum.edu/press-releases/2003/10/23/allison-joseph-continues-fall-poetry-series/ |archive-date=December 12, 2014 |url-status=dead}} She graduated from Kenyon College with a B.A., and from Indiana University Bloomington with a Master of Fine Arts. She teaches at Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC), and is Director of the Young Writers Workshop at SIUC, which she founded in 1999: a four-day summer program for high school students. Many of SIUC's creative writing faculty and graduate students are involved with the workshop, and the student participants come from several states.{{Cite web |url=http://perspect.siuc.edu/03_sp/joseph.html |title=Interview: Perspectives - Spring 2003 - Unblinking Interview with Allison Joseph by Marilyn Davis |access-date=November 7, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090614092555/http://perspect.siuc.edu/03_sp/joseph.html |archive-date=June 14, 2009 |url-status=dead}}[https://www.angelfire.com/il/yww/ Young Writers Workshop Homepage] In 1995, she was one of the founding editors of [http://craborchardreview.siuc.edu/ Crab Orchard Review] as the magazine's poetry editor and has worked as editor-in-chief since August 2001. She is also the publisher and founder of No Chair Press.{{cite web |website=No Chair Press |title=About the Publisher |url=http://www.nochairpress.com/about-the-publisher.html |access-date=November 28, 2017}} She lives in Carbondale, Illinois. Joseph will be teaching at the Poetry Seminar for The Frost Place in August 2021.
For more than thirty years, Joseph was married to fellow poet Jon Tribble, with whom she co-founded Crab Orchard Review. Tribble died in October 2019.{{Cite web|title=Jon Tribble|url=https://thesouthern.com/news/local/obituaries/jon-tribble/article_b4451836-be75-5a4b-a265-13f0a18af39f.html|access-date=2020-09-27|website=The Southern|date=9 October 2019 |language=en}}
Honors and awards
- 2020 Winner of the Independent Press Award, Small Book Category for Smart Pretender (Finishing Line Press, 2019){{Cite web | title=Independent Press Award announces the 2020 Winners | website=Independent Press Award | url=https://www.independentpressaward.com/2020winners | access-date=2020-05-29}}
- 1992 John C. Zacharis First Book Award
- 2009 Aquarius Press Legacy Award {{cite news | url=http://news.siuc.edu/news/August09/082009amh9152.html | title=Allison Joseph wins Aquarius Press Legacy Award | date=August 20, 2009 | author=Andrea Hahn | work=The Saluki Times | access-date=November 7, 2009 | archive-url=https://archive.today/20120718184931/http://news.siuc.edu/news/August09/082009amh9152.html | archive-date=July 18, 2012 | url-status=dead}}
- Literary Award from the Illinois Arts Council
- Breadloaf Writers' Conference Fellowship
- Sewanee Writers' Conference Fellowship
- Academy of American Poets prize
- Ruth Lilly Fellowship
- Associated Writing Programs Prize
Published works
=Full-length poetry collections=
- Confessions of a Barefaced Woman. Red Hen Press. 2018. {{ISBN|978-1-59709-609-6}}.
- {{cite book| title=My Father's Kites: Poems| publisher=Steel Toe Books| year= 2010| isbn= 978-0-9824169-2-1}}
- {{cite book| title=Voice: Poems| publisher=Mayapple Press| year= 2009| isbn= 978-0-932412-75-1}}
- {{cite book| title=Imitation of life: poems| publisher=Carnegie Mellon University Press| year= 2003| isbn= 978-0-88748-386-8}}
- {{cite book| title=Soul Train | publisher=Carnegie Mellon University Press| year= 1997| isbn= 978-0-88748-247-2}}
- {{cite book| title=In Every Seam |publisher=University of Pittsburgh Press| year= 1997| isbn= 978-0-8229-3994-8}}
- {{cite book | title=What Keeps Us Here | publisher=Ampersand | year=1992 | isbn=978-0-935331-11-0 | url-access=registration | url=https://archive.org/details/whatkeepsusherep0000jose}}
- {{cite book| title=Worldly Pleasures | publisher=WordTech Communications| year= 2004| isbn= 978-1-932339-12-3}}
=Chapbook collections=
- The Last Human Heart. Diode Editions, 2020. {{ISBN|978-1-939728-38-8}}.
- Smart Pretender. Finishing Line Press, 2019. {{ISBN|978-1635349603}}.
- Corporal Muse. Sibling Rivalry Press, 2018. {{ISBN|978-1-943977-50-5}}.
=Anthology publications=
- New Sister Voices: Poetry by American Women of African Descent
- {{cite book| title=Boomer Girls: poems by women from the baby boom generation |editor=Pamela Gemin |editor2=Paula Sergi| publisher=University of Iowa Press| year=1999| isbn=978-0-87745-687-2| url-access=registration| url=https://archive.org/details/boomergirlspoems0000unse}}
- {{cite book| title=American Poetry: the next generation |editor=Gerald Costanzo |editor2=Jim Daniels| publisher=Carnegie Mellon University Press| year=2000| isbn=978-0-88748-343-1| url-access=registration| url=https://archive.org/details/americanpoetry00gera}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.nochairpress.com/ No Chair Press]
- [http://therondeauroundup.blogspot.com The Rondeau Roundup]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090614092555/http://perspect.siuc.edu/03_sp/joseph.html "Unblinking"] Interview with Allison Joseph by Marilyn Davis, Interview: Perspectives, Spring 2003.
- [http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v4n2/features/joseph_a_011306/index.htm "An Interview with Allison Joseph"]. Interview: Blackbird, January 13, 2006.
- [http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/callaloo/v019/19.2hamilton.html Kendra Hamilton Interviews Allison Joseph], Callaloo, Volume 19, Number 2, Spring 1996, pp. 461–472
- [http://100dayspoems.blogspot.com/2009/03/day-46-allison-joseph.html Poems: "Conservative Love in the Age of Obama"], Starting Today, March 6, 2009
- [http://www.valpo.edu/vpr/josephlittle.html Little Epiphanies by Allison Joseph]. Poem: Valparisio Poetry Review
- [http://mayapplepress.com/?s=allison+joseph Author Page: Mayapple Press - Allison Joseph]
- [http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v4n1/features/joseph_a_061505/joseph_a_text.htm A Reading by Allison Joseph]. Audio Reading: Blackbird Archive.
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