Hi! I’m Alysse. I’m a writer, Associate Editor of Pilgrimage Magazine, and Associate Professor of English at Colorado Mountain College. 

FishWife

a woman who sells fish : a rough & rude woman : a vulgar, abusive woman : a course-mannered woman who is prone to shouting : also a full-length poetry collection published by Black Lawrence Press. Click here to read three poems and a little about the writing of the book.

press

FishWife is reviewed by the marvelous Liza Katz Duncan in RHINO.

FishWife is featured on The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed.

FishWife won the Colorado Book Award in poetry!

FishWish won a gold medal from the IPPY Awards!

FishWife was a finalist for the The Medal Provocateur from the Erik Hoffer Book Awards!

Interview with Kathryn Winograd for The Colorado Poet, Issue #41.

“Whole-ass one thing”: interview with Emily Mohn-Slate

Interview with Rena J. Mosteirin of Left Bank Books

Ripple Map: Interview with Lauren K. Carlson of Tinderbox Poetry Journal

events

Helene Wurlitzer Foundation Artist Showcase, August 3 2025.

Colorado Poets Center Reading at the Boulder Bookstore, July 15 2025.

Black Lawrence Press AWP 2025 Off-Site Reading, March 27 2025.

Boutelle-Day Poetry Center at Smith College Alum Reading Series, January 9 2025.

Texas Launch at Basket Books & Art in Houston, November 7 2024.

The DMQ Virtual Salon, October 2024.

CSU-Pueblo SoCo Reading Series, October 10 2024.

Celebrate National Poetry Month with Colorado Authors at the Bookworm, April 11 2024.

Trish Hopkinson Book Launch at Lithic Bookstore & Gallery, March 24 2024.

Fishwife playlist on spotify

Pentimento

Pentimento is an alteration in a painting, evidenced by traces of previous work, showing that the artist changed her mind as to the composition during the process of painting. Pentimento is Italian for repentance; it’s also a chapbook available from Gold Line Press.

Elsewhere

• Author page at Black Lawrence Press

• Interview on WYCE Electric Poetry

• Contributor Spotlight interview at Midwestern Gothic

• Profile at Poets & Writers

• Profile at Colorado Poets Center

• Profile at Smith College Alumnae Poets