Allison Funk
Allison Funk was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and grew up in Delaware. She earned her BA in English from Ohio Wesleyan University and MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University. Alice James Books published her first collection of poems, Forms of Conversion, in 1986. Living at the Epicenter, her second book, won the 1995 Samuel French Morse Prize as well as the Society of Midland Authors Poetry Prize. Other books include The Knot Garden (Sheep Meadow Press, 2002); The Tumbling Box (C&R Press, 2009); and Wonder Rooms, issued by Free Verse Editions (Parlor Press, 2015). Her honors include a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the George Kent Prize from Poetry Magazine, and the Celia B. Wagner Award from the Poetry Society of America. Her work has appeared widely in journals and anthologies, including Poetry, Paris Review, Shenandoah, Field, Cincinnati Review, Image, Prairie Schooner, The Best American Poetry and When She Named Fire: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by American Women. She is a Distinguished Professor of English at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.
