Alison Koffler
Alison Koffler’s poems have appeared in such publications as Iris: A Journal for Women, Heliotrope and Home Planet News, and were included in the anthologies lifeblood: the woodstock poetry society anthology (Chickaree Press, 2011) and A Slant of Light: Contemporary Women Writers of the Hudson Valley (SUNY Press, 2013). She was the recipient of the 2003 Poetry Teacher of the Year Award from Poets House and McGraw-Hill, the 2011 Green Heron Poetry Award and the 2016 Bronx Council on the Arts’ BRIO Award for poetry, having won it as well in 1993, 2000 and 2006. She works as an on-site teacher-consultant for the New York City Writing Project at Lehman College and lives in the Bronx and Woodstock, NY.
