Allison Joseph

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. She graduated from Kenyon College with a B.A., and from Indiana University Bloomington with a Master of Fine Arts. In 1995, she was one of the founding editors of 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. 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.

Honors and awards 2020 Winner of the Independent Press Award, Small Book Category for Smart Pretender (Finishing Line Press, 2019) 1992 John C. Zacharis First Book Award 2009 Aquarius Press Legacy Award 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. .

Chapbook collections The Last Human Heart. Diode Editions, 2020. . Smart Pretender. Finishing Line Press, 2019. . Corporal Muse. Sibling Rivalry Press, 2018. .

Anthology publications New Sister Voices: Poetry by American Women of African Descent