Short Bio

Alison Granucci is a Pushcart-nominated poet, writer, photographer, and naturalist living in the Hudson Valley. In 2005, she founded Blue Flower Arts, a literary speaker’s agency, the first in this country to represent poets, and upon retiring in 2020, began to write poetry herself. Alison’s work is published or forthcoming in RHINO, Tupelo Quarterly, Pangyrus, Terrain.org, Connecticut River Review, Plant-Human Quarterly, Subnivean, Crosswinds Poetry Journal, Great River Review, About Place Journal, Emerge Literary Journal, EcoTheo Review, The Dewdrop, Humana Obscura, and Earthshine, as well as the anthology Little By Little the Bird Builds its Nest. Her essay “Teacher Bird” was a nonfiction finalist in phoebe: a Journal of Literature and Art. In 2023, Alison was an Artist-in-residence at Trail Wood, homestead of naturalist Edwin Way Teale; and in 2022, she received the first annual Vicious Circle Award from The Poetry Society of New York for her contributions to the world of poetry. Alison serves as a reader for The Rumpus and sits on the board of the Hellbenders Gathering of Poets. She is at work on her first collection of poems as well as co-editing an anthology of new bird writing with J. Drew Lanham.

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