Austin Allen is the author of Pleasures of the Game (Waywiser Press, 2016), winner of the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize. He has taught creative writing at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Cincinnati.
Dick Allen grew up near the Adirondack Mountains in Round Lake, New York. He earned a BA from Syracuse University and an MA from Brown University. His numerous poetry collections...
Heather Allen is the author of Leaving a Shadow (Copper Canyon Press, 1996). She lives in Connecticut.
William Hervey Allen, Jr., a US educator, poet, and author, is best remembered for his novel of the early United States, Anthony Adverse (1933). He also wrote volumes of poetry,...
Jessica Allen is an author who writes on culture, food and travel. She is the author of The Great American Read: The Book of Books (Black Dog & Leventhal, 2018),...
Kenzie Allen is a recipient of the James Welch Prize for Indigenous Poets. She is an Oneida Nation of Wisconsin descendant.
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...
Jason Allen-Paisant is a scholar and an award-winning poet. Their book Thinking with Trees (Carcanet Press, 2021) won the poetry category of the 2022 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature....
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...
Lauren K. Alleyne is the author of two collections of poetry, Difficult Fruit (2014) and Honeyfish (2019), and two chapbooks, Dawn in the Kaatskills (2008) and (Un)Becoming Gretel (2022). She...
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...
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.
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...
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...
Ahmad Almallah is a poet from Palestine and an artist-in-residence at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Border Wisdom (Winter Editions, 2023) and Bitter English (University of Chicago Press, 2019). He won the...
Melanie Almeder teaches creative writing and contemporary literature at Roanoke College. Her work appears widely.
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...
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...
Nuar Alsadir is the author of two poetry collections: Fourth Person Singular (Liverpool University Press, 2017), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and shortlisted for the Forward...