Allison Blevins is a queer, disabled writer. She received her MA at Pittsburg State University and MFA at Queens University of Charlotte. She is a Lecturer for the Women's Studies Program at Pittsburg State University. She is also a poetry and nonfiction mentor at Middle Tennessee State University. Her work has appeared in such journals as Brevity, Mid-American Review, the minnesota review, and Raleigh Review.
She is the author of the poetry collection Where Will We Live if the House Burns Down? (Persea Books, forthcoming), the hybrid collection Cataloguing Pain (YesYes Books, 2023), the lyric nonfiction collection Handbook for the Newly Disabled, A Lyric Memoir (BlazeVox, 2022), and the poetry collection Slowly/Suddenly (VA Press, 2021). She is also the author of the chapbooks fiery poppies bruising their own throats (Glass Lyre Press, 2023), her second collaborative chapbook with the poet Josh Davis; Chorus for the Kill (Seven Kitchens Press, 2022), her first collaborative chapbook; Susurration (Blue Lyra Press, 2019); Letters to Joan (Lithic Press, 2019); and A Season for Speaking (Seven Kitchens Press, 2019), part of the Robin Becker Series.
In 2023, she won the Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award from Persea Books. In 2022, she won the Laux/Millar Poetry Prize from Raleigh Review. She has been nominated for the Stephen Meats Poetry Prize, the Stanley Hank Memorial Prize, the Best of the Net, and the Pushcart Prize. She has also been a Finalist and Honorable Mention for the Geri Digiorno Prize and an Honorable Mention for the Barthelme Prize and the Gulf Coast Poetry Prize. She has been a Finalist for the Pamet River Prize, the Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize, the Laux/Millar Poetry Prize, the Cowles Poetry Book Prize, the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, the Glass Chapbook Series, the Oscar Wilde Award, the Creative Nonfiction Literary Awards from Ninth Letter, and the Moon City Poetry Award.
Allison has formerly served as the Poetry Editor at Literary Mama and the Executive Editor at the museum of americana. She is the founder and Director of Small Harbor Publishing. She lives in Minnesota with her spouse and three children.