Allison Funk Professor Co-editor of Sou'wester Office: PH 3216 Phone: x2176

M.F.A. Columbia University

Specializations: Creative Writing (Poetry); Contemporary American Poetry; Modern British and American Literature


Publications and Awards:

Allison Funk has published three books of poems: The Knot Garden (The Sheep Meadow Press, 2002); Living at the Epicenter (Northeastern University Press, 1995); and Forms of Conversion (Alice James Books, 1986).

She has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Arts Councils of Delaware and Illinois. She has also been awarded the George Kent Prize from Poetry magazine, the Celia B. Wagner Prize from the Poetry Society of America, and the 1995 Award for Poetry from the Society of Midland Authors. Her work has been included in The Best American Poetry, 1994, and such journals as Poetry, The Paris Review, The Georgia Review, The Iowa Review, and Shenandoah.

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