Alison Townsend (born Pennsburg, Pennsylvania) is an American poet.
Life She grew up in New York. She is Professor Emerita of English at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.
Her work has appeared in Calyx, Clackamas Literary Review, Fourth Genre, New Letters, The North American Review, and The Southern Review.
She is married and lives outside Madison, Wisconsin.
Awards 2009 Pushcart Prize 2008 Crab Orchard Award 2004 Diner poetry contest
Works "Jane Morris Poses For Rossetti’s Proserpine"; "Demeter Faces Facts", Mudlark Poster No. 79, 2009 "Spin", Rattle, July 2008
Poetry
(Flume Press chapbook prize winner, 2007).
Anthologies
Essays
"Faculty Essay: The World Outside My Window - balancing teaching and the creative life", ENVISION Magazine, Winter 2007
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