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 forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press, March 2024. Click here to read three poems and a little about the writing of the book.

FishWife was a finalist for the 2022 Barrow Street Book Prize, the 2022 Antivenom Poetry Award from Elixir Press, the 2022 Ghost Peach Press Book Contest, a semi-finalist for the 2021 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry, a semi-finalist for the 2021 and 2022 Perugia Press Prizes, and made it to the top 10 in the 2022 Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize.

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 Smith College Alumnae Poets

• Profile at Colorado Poets Center