Alarie Tennille

Alarie Tennille (alariepoet.com) was born and raised in Portsmouth, Virginia, and graduated from the University of Virginia in the first class admitting women. She still misses the ocean, but loves the writing community she’s found in Kansas City. Alarie serves on the Emeritus Board of The Writers Place. Alarie is the author of a poetry collection, Running Counterclockwise (Aldrich Press, 2014) and of a chapbook, Spiraling into Control. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including The Whirlybird Anthology of Kansas City Writers, Margie, Poetry East, Coal City Review, English Journal, Wild Goose Poetry Review, I-70 Review, and Southern Women’s Review.