alison stine
ALISON STINE was first published as a teenager in
The Kenyon Review and Hanging Loose. Her poems and prose have since appeared in Poetry, The Paris Review, Tin House, New England Review, Gulf Coast, and others. OHIO VIOLENCE, her first book, was published by The University of North Texas Press in 2009, winner of the Vassar Miller Prize. She is also the author of a chapbook, LOT OF MY SISTER, winner of the Wick Prize, from The Kent State University Press. Her second book won The Brittingham Prize, and will be published by The University of Wisconsin Press in Spring 2011.
Her awards include a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, and a 2008 Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. A former child actress, her musicals and plays have been performed at the Cleveland Playhouse, the University of Nebraska,
and Off-Broadway for Stephen Sondheim's Young Playwrights Inc.
Formerly the Emerging Writer Lecturer at Gettysburg College, she has taught at Fordham University and Grand Valley State University, and currently teaches at the Denison University Reynolds Young Writers' Workshop and Ohio University, where she is a PhD Candidate. She lives with her husband, writer Jordan Davis, and her stepson.