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Alison Woods
Alison Woods
MFA, Poetry: Columbia University (1996)
Alison Woods was born and raised in New York City. For as long as she can remember, she has kept journals and delighted in the act of
writing. At 16 she left New York for a small liberal arts college in New Hampshire where she encountered her first cow—in a field—grazing. The moment so startled her that she abandoned poetry for nearly ten years. Eventually, she returned to poetry and earned her MFA from Columbia University. Her poems have appeared in BigCityLit, the Kean Review, the National Poetry Review, Onthebus, the Paris Review, Poetry East, Rattallapax, Rattle, Salamander, the Western Humanities Review, and others. Her lyrics are featured on a CD by SXSW “Top Pick” singer/songwriter Marion LoGuidice and her creative essays have been featured in New York Press. In addition to working with Teachers & Writers Collaborative, she teaches writing at the Fashion Institute of
Technology and Kean University.
Fellowships & Awards
- Pushcart Prize, Nominations (2004 & 2005)
- The Nation Discover Prize, Semi-finalist (2005)
- The Tupelo Press Dorset Prize, Semi-finalist (2005)
- Lyric Recovery Festival-Carnegie Hall, Finalist, Honorable Mention (2004)
- Columbia University Award, Merit-Based Scholarship Prize (1997)
- BreadLoaf Writer’s Conference Scholar, Middlebury, VT (1996 & 1997)
- McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA, Fellowship (1992)
Poems and Publications
- “Is That All There Is?,” The Same, 2007
- “Vow,” The Same, 2007
- “A Shared Life,” Keen Review, 2007
- “Ice Fishing,” Keen Review, 2007
- “Twenty-one Hours,” Keen Review, July 2007
- “The Transient Rose,” Keen Review, July 2007
- “Devotion Sings Its Own Song,” Poetry East, June 2007
- “Ice Dancing*, Poetry East, June 2007
- “First View of the Infinite,” Poetry East, June 2007
- “Upon Finding My Old Waitress in a Deli Far From Home,” Poetry East, June 2007
- “Pandemonium,” The National Poetry Review, 2004
- “Wooden Tulips,” NYCBigCityLit, 2004
- “Tether,” NYCBigCityLit, 2004
- “The Karma of Lost Objects,” The Paris Review, 2004
- “Geometry in a Field of Goldenrod,” Rattapallax, 2004
- “So Much Goes into It That Can’t Be Known,” Poetry East, 2003
- “Less Is More,” Poetry East, 2003
- “Hirschfeld’s Ninas,” The Paris Review (Winter 2000/2001)
- “Pandora’s Box,” Rattapallax (vol. 8)
- “If I Be,” Western Humanities Review, 1998
- “Oz,” The Formalist (Vol. 8, no. 1)
- “American Folk Art,” Salamander (Vol 5., no.2)
- “Lena and the Flying Cranes,” Lyric Recovery Anthology (Vol. 1, no. 4)
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