Colleen Alles

Poet, Fiction Writer

Grand Rapids, MI

Website:

www.colleenalles.com

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Author's Bio

Colleen Alles is a native Michigander and award-winning writer living in Grand Rapids. The author of two novels and a collection of poetry, she is also Poetry Editor at The Lakeshore Review and a contributing fiction editor with Barren Magazine. She is obsessed with her dog, Charlie. You can find her online at www.colleenalles.com.

Publications & Prizes

Fiction

Books:

Master of Arts (Scantic Books, 2022)

Skinny Vanilla Crisis (Atmosphere Press, 2020)

Poetry

Book:

After the 8-Ball (Cornerstone Press, 2022)

Chapbooks:

Reader, To Tell You All: Found Poems in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre (Dancing Girl Press, 2023)

Three Stars (Ghost City Press, 2021)

Porch Light to the Longshoreman (Finishing Line Press, 2019)

Induction: poems for my new daughter by (Finishing Line Press, 2018)

Prizes won:

Winner of the 2020 Celery City Chapbook Contest (Friends of Poetry, Kalamazoo, Michigan) for the chapbook, So What to Say to a Bird?

Winner of the Michigan State University Jim Cash Awards for Creative Writing (2005): Fiction (1st place); Poetry (1st place).

Longlisted for The Fugere Book Prize for Finely Crafted Novellas, Regal House Publishing, 2023.

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Identifies as:

American

Prefers to work with:

Any

Born in:

Midland

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Last update: Aug 01, 2023