Currently a senior lecturer at Washington University, Allison Creighton was a music therapist and a high school English teacher before earning her MFA from the University of Missouri in St. Louis, where she received the Graduate Prize in Poetry. Her work has been published in Atlanta Review, Potomac Review, Natural Bridge, The Mochila Review, Lexington Books, and two anthologies. Her first poetry manuscript, Drawing Down the Moon, was a semifinalist for Persea Books’ Lexi Rudnitsky Prize in Poetry, the Blue Lynx Prize in Poetry, and the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Contest, before it was published by Turning Point in 2015. A long-time member of a poetry postcard group, Allison often writes with her black cat, Poe, nestled on her lap.
Manuscript Conferences
July 4, 2025
