Alison Granucci

Alison Granucci is a poet and naturalist living in the Hudson Valley. In 2005, she founded Blue Flower Arts, the first literary speaker’s agency in this country to represent poets, and upon retiring in 2020 began to write poetry herself. Her work is featured or forthcoming in RHINO (2nd Place, Editor’s Prize),Tupelo Quarterly (Poetry Prize finalist), Terrain.org, About Place Journal, Plant-Human Quarterly, Subnivean (Poetry Award finalist), Connecticut River Review, EcoTheo Review, Crosswinds Poetry Journal, Great River Review, The Dewdrop, and Humana Obscura. Her essay “Teacher Bird” was a nonfiction finalist in phoebe: a journal of literature and art. Alison is at work on her first poetry collection as well as co-editing an anthology of new bird writing with J. Drew Lanham. She is a reader for The Rumpusand serves on the board of the newly forming Hellbender Gathering of Poets for environmental writing. www.alisongranucci.com