Alison Meyers’ poems have appeared in Connecticut Review, Common Ground Review, Freshwater Review, Caduceus I, Caduceus VII and Urhalpool. Twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize, she is the author of two chapbooks, Red Angel's Orphan & Other Poems and Pest Control (Everyday Books). Vivian Shipley has called her “a talented writer with a style that is physical and memorable.”

Alison became Executive Director of Cave Canem Foundation, New York City, in September 2006. Previously, she directed the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival, a multi-faceted program of Hill-Stead Museum, CT, where she concurrently served as Director of Marketing & Communications. 1995-1999, she was General Manager of the Oberlin Co-operative Bookstore, a $3-million operation serving Oberlin College (OH) and the surrounding community. Prior to that, she owned Everyday Books & Café in Willimantic, CT, a community-based independent bookstore.

 

She has served as a panelist for the Urban Artists Initiative (CT), the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference, the New York State Council on the Arts’ Facing Pages Conference, the New England Foundation for the Arts Conference and elsewhere; and has been a judge for the NEA/Poetry Foundation’s Poetry Out Loud, the IMPAC/CSU Poetry Awards and the Connecticut Book Award for Poetry. Currently, she serves on the boards of Bowery Arts & Science and Soul Mountain Retreat.