About Allison Wilkins
Allison Wilkins
Allison Wilkins is the author of House of Broken Tables (2026) and Girl Who (2014). Other poems and essays have appeared in Sierra Magazine, Hayden’s Ferry, Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Superstition Review, and The Lyric. She is the assistant director for Writing Workshops in Greece. She received her M.F.A from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and her B.F.A. at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. She is A.B.D from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. In addition to creative writing, her research interests include 20th and 21st century poetry, environmental and science writing, and American Literature. When not writing or in the classroom, she is a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT 500) through Yoga Alliance, with a practice that aims to unite body and breath for every body.
house of broken tables
House of Broken Tables contends with visions and prophecies, with what is seen but not understood, with what is spoken but risks being lost in translation. Located in conjured landscapes that are at once ancient and contemporary, Greek and not Greek, these poems give voice to the desires of mythic women who are often forced to the edges of others’ narratives. Lingering in moments of rupture, thes
girl who
Allison Wilkins's Girl Who is held together by the collection's title: each poem in the sequence follows the phrase "Girl Who," as if filling out an ellipsis, and we follow this girl's actions and interactions as she sets out to define herself. The poems trace the narrow edge between anonymity and identity, between calm and instability, between the easy contentment of connection and a more satisfy