Allison Adair

Originally from central Pennsylvania, Allison Adair now lives in Boston, where she teaches at Boston College and GrubStreet. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Arts & Letters, Best American Poetry, Best New Poets, Kenyon Review Online, North American Review, and ZYZZYVA, among other journals. Allison is the recipient of the Pushcart Prize, the Florida Review Editors’ Award, the Orlando Prize, and first place in Mid-American Review’s Fineline Competition. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She is the author of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize-winning collection, The Clearing, forthcoming June 2020.

Awards
Max Ritvo Poetry Prize
Finalist for the 2021 Housatonic Book Award in Poetry

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Allison Adair
Winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize

Winner of the 2019 Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, The Clearing navigates the ever-shifting poles of violence and vulnerability with rich imagination and a singular incisiveness.

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