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Kenzie Allen

Kenzie Allen is a recipient of the James Welch Prize for Indigenous Poets. She is an Oneida Nation of Wisconsin descendant.
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Lillian Allen

Lillian Allen was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and grew up in Spanish Town. In 1969, she moved to Canada to attend Waterloo University in Kitchener, Ontario; later that year, she...
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Rachael Allen

Rachael Allen’s first pamphlet of poems was published by Faber & Faber. She is the poetry editor for Granta magazine and coeditor of the poetry anthology series Clinic and the...
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Lauren K. Alleyne

Lauren K. Alleyne is the author of two collections of poetry, Difficult Fruit (Peepal Tree Press, 2014), and Honeyfish (New Issues, 2019). Her work has appeared in publications including the Atlantic, Ms. Muse, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Interviewing...
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Dorothy Allison

Poet and prose writer Dorothy Allison was raised in Greenville, South Carolina, by her young single mother. The first in her family to graduate from high school, Allison earned a...
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Gillian Allnutt

Gillian Allnutt has published nine collections of poetry including wake (2018), indwelling (2013), and How the Bicycle Shone: New & Selected Poems (2007), all from Bloodaxe Books.
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Andrew Allport

Andrew Allport is the author of the book the body | of space | in the shape of the human (New Issues Press, 2012) and the chapbook The Ice Ship & Other...
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Washington Allston

Painter and poet Washington Allston was born in South Carolina in 1779 and grew up in Newport, Rhode Island. He graduated from Harvard University, where he was chosen to read...
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Laurence Alma-Tadema
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Ahmad Almallah

Ahmad Almallah is a poet from Palestine and artist-in-residence at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Bitter English (University of Chicago Press, 2019).
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Melanie Almeder

Melanie Almeder teaches creative writing and contemporary literature at Roanoke College. Her work appears widely.
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Steve Almond

Steve Almond is the author of two story collections, My Life in Heavy Metal and The Evil B.B. Chow, the novel Which Brings Me to You (with Julianna Baggott), and...
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Esther Aloba

Esther Aloba (also known as Yewa) was born in Brooklyn. She has performed the Apollo Theater, Teen Night at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the Nuyorican Poets...
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Nuar Alsadir

Nuar Alsadir is a poet, writer, and psychoanalyst. She is the author of the poetry collections Fourth Person Singular (2017), shortlisted for the 2017 Forward Prize for Best Collection in England...
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Zaina Alsous

Zaina Alsous is the author of the poetry collection A Theory of Birds (University of Arkansas Press, 2019), winner of the Norma Farber First Book Award and the Etel Adnan Poetry...
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Alta

Feminist poet, publisher, and musician Alta was born in Reno and grew up there and in Berkeley. She was educated at the University of California at Berkeley. Alta’s poems engage themes...
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Robert Alter

Scholar and translator Robert Alter is the author of more than 20 books of criticism, translation, and commentary. He earned his BA from Columbia University and PhD from Harvard University....
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Keith Althaus

Poet and art writer Keith Althaus was educated at Hamilton College. The author of numerous poetry collections, including Ladder of Hours (2005) and Rival Heavens (1993), he has also had...
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Toby Altman

Toby Altman is the author of Arcadia, Indiana (Plays Inverse, 2017) and six chapbooks, including Every Hospital by Bertrand Goldberg (Except One), winner of the 2018 Ghost Proposal chapbook contest. His poems can...
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Howard Altmann

Howard Altmann is the author of In This House (Turtle Point Press, 2010), his second book of poems. He lives in New York City.

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