Alison Roh Park

Poet

New York, NY
New York US

Author's Bio

Alison Roh Park is a Pushcart-nominated poet, Kundiman Asian American Poetry fellow, and winner of the Poetry Society of America New York Chapbook Fellowship and Poets and Writers Magazine Amy Award. In 2010, she received the Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant in Literature to travel to rural South Korea to study gender and the impact of U.S. foreign policy and globalization on family farming. She is co-founder of The Good Times Collective and teaches at Hunter College of the City University of New York.

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
Yell-Oh Girls!: Emerging Voices Explore Culture, Identity, and Growing Up Asian American (Harper Collins, 2001)
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The Nuyorasian Anthology (Asian American Writers' Workshop, 1999)
Chapbook:
What We Push Against (Poetry Society of America, 2011)
Journals:
Asian Pacific American Journal
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Mythium Literary Journal
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More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
Asian American, Korean American
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English, Spanish
Raised in: 
Queens, NY
New York
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Last update: Apr 12, 2013