Alison C. Rollins

Alison C. Rollins, born and raised in St. Louis, currently works as a reference and instruction librarian for the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She holds a Bachelor of Science from Howard University and a Master of Library and Information Science form the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Rollins has worked for various public libraries including the DC Public Library and St. Louis Public Library. She is the second prizewinner of the 2016 James H. Nash Poetry contest and a finalist for the 2016 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The American Poetry Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Meridian, Poetry, The Poetry Review, TriQuarterly, and elsewhere. A Cave Canem and Callaloo Fellow, she is also a 2016 recipient of the Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship.