ALISON PALMER is the author of four poetry collections, including Bargaining with the Fall (Broadstone Books, 2023), and chapbooks, The Offing (Broadstone Books, 2024), Everything Is Normal Here (Broadstone Books, 2022), and The Need for Hiding (Dancing Girl Press, 2018). Her work has appeared in journals such as FIELD, Crazyhorse, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Cimarron, Cincinnati Review, and Columbia Poetry Review. Alison was chosen for a 2022 Independent Artist Award (IAA) grant by the Maryland State Arts Council (MSAC).

Alison received her MFA in Poetry from Washington University in St. Louis, and she was awarded the Emma Howell Memorial Poetry Prize from Oberlin College where she graduated with a BA in Creative Writing. She also studied Poetry through Syracuse University in Florence, Italy.