English Department Faculty

Allison Adair

Professor of the Practice

Department

English

Biography

Allison Adair specializes in creative writing, with a focus on poetry and flash fiction and a special interest in digital humanities. At 艾可直播 College, she teaches the First-Year Writing Seminar (Pop Culture & Protest, American Anti-Intellectualism); multi-level workshops in poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction; Literature Core courses (Truth-Telling in Literature, Travel Literature, American Experiments); Studies in Poetry; and the electives The Poetics of Rap and Why Poetry Matters.

Publications

Poetry

  • 鈥淒eliver Me from My EpiPen,鈥 forthcoming in聽Crab Orchard Review
  • 鈥淪omething Like a Prayer,鈥 forthcoming in聽Image
  • 鈥淢emento Mori: Bell Jar with Suspended Child,鈥 forthcoming in聽Kenyon Review聽(online)
  • 鈥淢ine Fire at Centralia,鈥 forthcoming in聽South Dakota Review
  • 鈥淥n Story,鈥 forthcoming in聽South Dakota Review
  • 鈥淭o a Four-Year-Old Daughter,鈥 forthcoming in聽South Dakota Review
  • 鈥淗oney,鈥 forthcoming in聽Southern Indiana Review
  • 鈥淪elf-Portrait as Emma Bovary,鈥 forthcoming in聽Southern Indiana Review
  • 鈥淐reation Myth,鈥 forthcoming in聽厂辞耻鈥檞别蝉迟别谤
  • 鈥淐rown Cinquain for the Tattooed Man I Refused,鈥 forthcoming in聽厂辞耻鈥檞别蝉迟别谤
  • 鈥淣o Response,鈥 forthcoming in聽厂辞耻鈥檞别蝉迟别谤
  • 鈥淟ocal Music,鈥 forthcoming in聽Sugar House Review
  • 鈥淭he Game,鈥 forthcoming in聽Washington Square Review
  • 鈥淔light Theory鈥 (reprint), forthcoming in聽奥补惫别蝉听anthology from AROHO
  • 鈥淐rown Cinquain for a Lost Child, Eight Years Later,鈥澛Pleiades聽(June 2019)
  • 鈥淲eek Six of the Fire,鈥澛Pleiades聽(June 2019)
  • 鈥淚nterrogation Site,鈥澛Iron Horse Literary Review聽(March 2019)
  • 鈥淩aising a Girl, 2018,鈥澛Mom Egg Review聽(March 2019)
  • 鈥淐辞尘尘耻迟别,鈥澛North American Review聽(February 2019)
  • 鈥淲hale Fall,鈥澛North American Review聽(February 2019)
  • 鈥淔irst Plow at Red Mountain Pass,鈥澛Valparaiso Poetry Review聽(December 2018)
  • 鈥淎fter the Police Have Been Called,鈥澛ZYZZYVA聽(December 2018)
  • 鈥淭he Clearing鈥 (reprint),聽Pushcart Prize XLIII聽(November 2018)
  • 鈥淭he Clearing鈥 (reprint),聽SER TWO聽(October 2018)
  • 鈥淐onneaut, 1982,鈥澛Pittsburgh Poetry Houses聽(October 2018)
  • 鈥淩ose Garden at Villa Grimaldi,鈥澛Arkansas International聽(September 2018); nominated for a 2020 Pushcart Prize
  • 鈥淢iscarriage鈥 (reprint),聽Best American Poetry聽(September 2018)
  • 鈥淩eading Issa,鈥澛Whiskey Island聽(August 2018)
  • 鈥淪elf-Portrait as Metaphor,鈥澛Whiskey Island聽(August 2018)
  • 鈥淐ity Life,鈥澛The Florida Review聽(June 2018)
  • 鈥淗颈迟肠丑颈苍驳,鈥澛The Florida Review聽(June 2018)
  • 鈥淚f Imagination and Memory met, unexpectedly, one last time,鈥澛Baltimore Review聽(May 2018)
  • 鈥淚f Water Can Carry Us Anywhere, It Can Bring Us Home,鈥澛Crab Creek Review聽(April 2018)
  • 鈥淲hen Horses Turn Down the Road,鈥澛FIELD聽(April 2018)
  • 鈥淏颈辞辫蝉测,鈥澛Bennington Review聽(January 2018)
  • 鈥淎s I Near Forty I Think of You Then,鈥澛Gulf Stream聽(December 2017)
  • 鈥淎ugust in Laval,鈥澛The London Reader聽(December 2017)
  • 鈥淒ora Maar Enters Her Own Blue Period,鈥澛Ninth Letter聽(December 2017)
  • 鈥淗e Waited for Days,鈥澛Measure聽(October 2017)
  • 鈥淟测尘辫丑辞尘补,鈥澛Measure聽(October 2017)
  • 鈥淗err鈥檚 Ridge, 1983: A Re毛nactment,鈥澛Minnesota Review聽(October 2017)
  • 鈥淪topping Over the Arno,鈥澛Poet Lore聽(October 2017)
  • 鈥淭he Clearing,鈥澛The Southeast Review聽(October 2017); won a 2019 Pushcart Prize
  • 鈥淔ine Arts,鈥澛Penn Review聽(August 2017); nominated for a 2020 Pushcart Prize
  • 鈥淲ays to Describe a Death Inside Your Own Living Body,鈥澛American Poetry Review聽(July 2017)
  • 鈥淎s for the Glossy Green Tractor You Were,鈥澛Subtropics聽(June 2017)
  • 鈥淩ecurring Dream,鈥澛Subtropics聽(June 2017)
  • 鈥淏ear Fight in Rockaway,鈥澛艾可直播 Review聽(May 2017)
  • 鈥淎苍驳别濒耻蝉,鈥澛The Greensboro Review聽(April 2017)
  • 鈥淢aps for the Plotline,鈥澛Third Coast聽(February 2017)
  • 鈥淭丑颈谤蝉迟,鈥澛Comstock Review聽(December 2016)
  • 鈥沦颈濒惫别谤迟辞苍,鈥澛肠辞苍肠颅墨蝉聽(December 2016)
  • 鈥淪o Shiny Are the Spoils,鈥澛National Poetry Review聽(November 2016)
  • 鈥淲aking to Two Borrowed Lines,鈥澛New South聽(November 2016)
  • 鈥淭he Big Thinkers,鈥澛Nimrod聽(October 2016)
  • 鈥淢颈蝉肠补谤谤颈补驳别,鈥澛Southwest Review聽(October 2016)
  • 鈥淔补产濒别,鈥澛Mississippi Review聽(June 2016)
  • 鈥淔light Theory,鈥澛Los Angeles Review聽(May 2016);聽forthcoming in聽Waves, anthology from the A Room of Her Own Foundation
  • 鈥淕别迟迟测蝉产耻谤驳,鈥澛Shenandoah聽(March 2016)
  • 鈥淲estern Slope,鈥澛Best New Poets 2015聽(December 2015)
  • 鈥淢other of 2 Stabbed to Death in Silverton, Colorado,鈥澛Tahoma Literary Review聽(December 2015)
  • 鈥淲hat Falls Behind,鈥澛Coffee House Poetry听/听Troubadour International聽(November 2015)
  • 鈥淎dvice for the New Mother,鈥澛The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts (November 2015)
  • 鈥淟etter to My Foundling: #235, Boy,鈥澛Tinderbox Poetry Journal聽(October 2015)
  • 鈥凄别产迟,鈥澛Tinderbox Poetry Journal聽(October 2015)
  • 鈥淲hat We Should Really Be Afraid Of,鈥澛The Missouri Review聽(Poem of the Week, August 2015)
  • 鈥淟etter to My Niece, in Silverton, Colorado,鈥澛Mid-American Review聽(December 2014); forthcoming in聽Milk Teeth, anthology from聽Hermeneutic Chaos; nominated for a Pushcart Prize; runner-up for聽Best Small Fictions 2015
  • 鈥淢aking Way,鈥 reprinted in the anthology聽Hacks聽(September 2007)
  • 鈥淭erra Straniera鈥 (translation from original Italian), epigraph to聽The Saint of Lost Things聽by Christopher Castellani, Algonquin Press (September 2005)
  • 鈥淢aking Way,鈥澛The 艾可直播 Globe聽(June 2005)

Prose

  • 鈥淗ow Did It End?鈥 (flash fiction), The Lascaux Review (June 2017)
  • 鈥淪elf-Portrait as Cenotaph (Gettysburg)鈥 (flash fiction), Nano Fiction (April 2016)
  • 鈥淢AR Asks, Allison Adair Answers鈥 (contributor interview), Mid-American Review blog (July 2015)
  • 鈥淎 Hypertext Tribute to James Tate鈥 (digital arts project), co-authored with Christopher Boucher, Electric Literature (July 2015)
  • 鈥淭he Rumpus Hypertext Interview with Maya Lang鈥 (interview), The Rumpus (June 2015)
  • 鈥淔ree Ulysses!鈥 (interview), The Brooklyn Quarterly (July 2014)
  • 鈥淔act vs. Fiction in Memoir and Fantasy鈥 (essay), Grub Daily (August 2012)
  • 鈥淭he Myth of Writing 鈥榝or Yourself鈥欌 (essay), Grub Daily (May 2012)
  • 鈥淲riting Despite College. Or Marriage. Or Work. Or Newborns. Or鈥︹ (essay) Grub Daily (April 2012)
  • 鈥淪haring Your Work with Family鈥 (essay), Grub Daily (March 2012)
  • 鈥淟iterary Imitation (with a Side of Frickles)鈥 (essay), Grub Daily (February 2012)
  • 鈥淭he Writer鈥檚 Search for Self-Knowledge: Goal or Distraction?鈥 (essay), Grub Daily (January 2012)
  • 鈥淪ilencing Your Inner Grinch: How to Keep Writing During the Holidays鈥 (essay), Grub Daily (December 2011)
  • 鈥淪ome Lines to Get You Going鈥 (essay), Grub Daily (November 2011)
  • 鈥淗ow to Read Like a Writer鈥 (essay), Grub Daily (September 2011)
  • 鈥淲riting the Unpublishable (Should We Even Bother?)鈥 (essay), Grub Daily (August 2011)
  • 鈥淎 Mass of Stupid Filth (and Why 鈥楻eal鈥 Poets Don鈥檛 Exist)鈥 (essay), Grub Daily (June 2011)
  • 鈥淧oets You Should Read鈥 (essay), Grub Daily (May 2011)
  • 鈥淔inishing: Is It Even Possible?鈥 (essay), Grub Daily (April 2011)
  • 鈥淭he Mysterious M.F.A.鈥 (essay), Grub Daily (February 2011)