Allison Joseph is the author of 17 full-length poetry collections and chapbooks, including Soul Train and Imitation of Life (Carnegie Mellon University Press), In Every Seam (University of Pittsburgh Press), and Confessions of a Barefaced Woman forthcoming from Red Hen Press. Ms. Joseph serves as founder and poetry editor of Crab Orchard Review and directs the Young Writers Workshop, a summer workshop for teen writers. A member of the creative writing faculty at Southern Illinois University, she lives, writes, and teaches in Carbondale. Joseph is
the literary partner and wife of Jon Tribble.
Jon Tribble is the author of two poetry collections, Natural State (Glass Lyre Press) and And There Is Many a Good Thing forthcoming from Salmon Poetry. Mr. Tribble is a 2016 winner in the Nazim Hikmet International Poetry Competition. Tribble serves as managing editor of Crab Orchard Review and Series Editor of the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry. Recipient of Illinois Arts Council awards and fellowships, Tribble is the literary partner and husband of
Allison Joseph.
The reading is sponsored by the English Department’s Visiting Writers Series and the Intellectual and Cultural Activities Committee.
