Kelli Allen

Kelli Allen is an award-winning poet, scholar, and editor. Her poems, criticism, and stories have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies both in the US and internationally. Her work was recently seen in or is forthcoming from Palooka, Poetry Quarterly, The Lugh Review, Peurto Del Sol, Echo Ink Review, Other Poetry, Euphomy, Abridged, Blackmail Press, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from the University of Missouri-St. Louis and teaches in the MFA program at Lindenwood University. Her collection, Otherwise Soft White Ash, was released by John Gosslee books in September 2012 and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. www.kelli-allen.com