Alison Benis White is an American poet.
White is the author of Self-Portrait with Crayon, which was selected by poet Robert Hill Long as the winner of the 2008 Cleveland State University Poetry Center First Book Prize.[1] Her second manuscript, Small Porcelain Head, was selected for the 2011 Four Way Books Levis Prize by poet Claudia Rankine.[2] Her poems have appeared in journals such as The American Poetry Review, The Iowa Review, Pleiades, and Ploughshares.[3] She has received the Indiana Review Poetry Prize, the Bernice Slote Award from Prairie Schooner, the Lucille Medwick Award, and a Writers Exchange Award from Poets & Writers. She has also been recognized with a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship to the Sewanee Writer's Conference and an Emerging Writer Fellowship from the Writer's Center.[4] White received her M.F.A. from the University of California, Irvine.[5]
References
edit- ^ White, Allison Benis ‘’Poets & Writers’’ Author Page
- ^ allisonbeniswhite.com
- ^ allisonbeniswhite.com
- ^ "Sewanee Writers Conference Fellows". Archived from the original on 2012-04-15. Retrieved 2011-12-16.
- ^ White, Allison Benis Poets & Writers Author Page
External links
edit- Official website
- White's author page on the Cleveland State University Poetry Center website
- White's interview with BookSlut
- White's Q&A with First Book Interviews
- http://victoriamchang.blogspot.com/2011/01/coffee-chat-4-allison-benis-white.html
- http://bibliocracyradio.blogspot.com/2009/05/monday-may-18-allison-benis-whitekevin.html
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