Alison Hicks

Alison Hicks's third poetry collection, Knowing Is a Branching Trail, was awarded the 2021 Birdy Prize from Meadowlark Books. Previous collections are You Who Took the Boat Out (Unsolicited Press, 2017), Kiss (PS Books, 2011), and a chapbook Falling Dreams (Finishing Line Press, 2006). Other works include a novella, Love: A Story of Images (AWA Press, 2004), and an anthology, Prompted, co-edited with Elizsabeth Moseir and Therése Halscheid (PS books, 2010). Her work has appeared in Eclipse, Gargoyle, Permafrost, and Poet Lore, among other journals. She was named a finalist for the 2021 Beullah Rose Prize from Smartish Pace, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Green Hills Literary Lantern, Quartet Journal, and Nude Bruce Review. She is 1982 graduate of Bryn Mawr College, and received an M.F.A. in Creative Writing with a concentration in fiction in 1987 from the University of Arizona, where she held a University Fellowship, the Anonymous Scholarship, and was a second-place winner of the Downs Award for Fiction. She is certified to lead creative writing workshops following the Amherst Writers & Artists method pioneered by Pat Schneider. In 1996, she founded Greater Philadelphia Workshop Studio to support writers in the development of their individual voices and in the practice of their craft. GPWS offers community-based creative writing workshops and personal consultation using the Amherst Writers & Artists method.