Allison Adair's recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry (2018), Best New Poets, Boston Review, North American Review, Pleiades, Southeast Review, and ZYZZYVA, among other journals, and have received the Pushcart Prize (2019), the Florida Review Editors' Award, the Orlando Prize, and first place in the Fineline Competition from Mid-American Review. Originally from central Pennsylvania, Allison teaches at Boston College and Grub Street.