The Writers on the Bay Reading Series presents Allison Joseph Allison Joseph is a Professor of English at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, the editor of Crab Orchard Review and the director of the Young Writers Conference. Her most recent books of poems are Dwelling (Red Hen Press, 2025), Blue Streak (Glass Lyre Press, 2025) and Lexicon (Red Hen Press, 2021, and Poetry By The Sea Best Book of the Year Award winner). Her collection Confessions of a Barefaced won the 2019 Feathered Quill Book Award and was a finalist for the 2019 NAACP Image Award in Poetry. She was named Illinois Author of the Year for 2022 by the Illinois Association of Teachers of English. Her poems have appeared in the New York Times and in the Best American Poetry Series and on the poetry podcast The Slowdown. She is the widow of beloved poet and editor Jon Tribble. She lives in Carbondale, Illinois.