Allison Seay has published poems in Harvard Review, Mississippi Review, Poetry, and other journals, and is the recipient of fellowships from the Ruth Lilly Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. She lives in Richmond, Virginia.

Other poems by Allison Seay in Verse Daily:
January 29, 2008:   "Runaway Bride" "Before the leaves fell they waved like flags..."

Books by Allison Seay:

Other poems on the web by Allison Seay:
Three poems
"Town of the Beloved"
"Gossip Town"

About To See the Queen:

"To See the Queen, Allison Seay’s haunting, spectacular debut, is a voice in communion—magically intimate and distant...Even when the world seems ‘too far away to touch, or is as a fantasy,’ Seay recreates it so that it ‘returns in a different form—this time as an avalanche, a ledge of snow, slipping / from the roof of a warehouse into even more snow.’"
—Claudia Emerson