Alison Palmer is the author of the poetry chapbook, The Need for Hiding (Dancing Girl Press, 2018). To read an in-depth interview by The Poet’s Billow visit www.thepoetsbillow.org. Her work appears in FIELD, The Cincinnati Review, River Styx, Columbia Review, Cimarron Review, The Los Angeles Review, The Journal and elsewhere. Alison won the Poet’s Billow’s Atlantis Award, and her full-length collection, The Alarmist, was recently chosen as a semi-finalist for Black Lawrence Press’ Hudson Prize. Alison has been a Pushcart Prize and Best New Poets nominee. She lives and writes outside Washington, D.C. Please visit her website: alisonpalmer.org