Allison Joseph lives in Carbondale, Illinois, where she directs the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Southern Illinois University. She serves as poetry editor of Crab Orchard Review. Her books and chapbooks include What Keeps Us Here (Ampersand Press), Soul Train (Carnegie Mellon University Press), In Every Seam (University of Pittsburgh Press), Worldly Pleasures (Word Tech Communications), Imitation of Life (Carnegie Mellon UP), Voice: Poems (Mayapple Press), My Father's Kites (Steel Toe Books), Trace Particles (Backbone Press), Little Epiphanies (Imaginary Friend Press), Mercurial (Mayapple Press), Mortal Rewards (White Violet Press), Multitudes (Word Poetry), The Purpose of Hands (Glass Lyre Press), Double Identity (Singing Bone Press) Corporal Muse (Sibling Rivalry) and What Once You Loved (Barefoot Muse Press). She is the literary partner and wife of poet and editor Jon Tribble.

Other poems by Allison Joseph in Verse Daily:
October 14, 2016:   "Multitudes" "I'm a big city girl and a small town woman..."
December 4, 2015:   "Sidewalks" "Why should I be the one who walks afraid..."

Books by Allison Joseph:

Other poems on the web by Allison Joseph:
"Little Epiphanies"
Five poems
Two poems
Four poems
Twenty poems
Two poems
"On Being Told I Don't Speak Like a Black Person"
"Running While Black"
Five poems

Allison Joseph on Twitter.