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 Alison
Hicks is the author of a novella Love:
A Story of Images (Amherst
Writers & Artists Press, 2004), and a chapbook of poems
Falling Dreams
(Finishing Line Press,
2006). She has twice received Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
fellowships, in creative non-fiction in 2003 and in fiction in
2007. Her fiction, poetry and nonfiction have appeared in Melusine,
Schuylkill Valley Journal, Mad Poets Review, Women. Period., Pearl,
Amoskeag, Eclipse, The Ledge, Pinyon, HeartLodge, Peregrine,
Philadelphia Poets, Literary Mama, The Wooster Review, The Progressive,
Four Corners, Xanadu and The Bryn Mawr Alumnae Bulletin.
The story “The Reservoir” was performed for the 2002-2003
season of the Writing Aloud series hosted by the InterAct
Theatre Company in Philadelphia and the poem “Twenty-Six
Years” was included in the 2005 Poetry is Alive! Performance
by the Ritz
Theatre Company of Oaklyn, New Jersey.
Ms. Hicks has studied writing with Leonard
Gontarek, Andrew Fetler, Pat
Schneider, C.E. Poverman, Steve Orlen, Mary Carter and Robert
Houston. She is 1982 graduate of Bryn Mawr College, and received
an M.F.A. in Creative Writing with a concentration in fiction
in 1987 from the University of Arizona, where she held a University
Fellowship, the Anonymous Scholarship, and was a second-place
winner of the Downs Award for Fiction, and a Writers at Work competition
winner and judge. In 1986, she was a Working Scholar at Breadloaf
Writers' Conference.
She was a Co-Editor of Sonora Review from
1987-88, after serving on their editorial staff and on those of
The Massachusetts Review and The Progressive magazine.
She has taught writing at the University of Arizona, the Authors'
Resource Center in Tucson, Arizona, and Germantown Friends' School.
She has also served in higher education as an admissions officer
at Colgate University in New York State and at Bryn Mawr College,
and as a grant writer and development consultant for Pennsylvania
non-profit educational and cultural organizations.
In 1996 she trained with founder Pat
Schneider in the Amherst
Writers & Artists™ method, and founded Greater Philadelphia
Wordshop Studio to offer creative writing workshops
supporting writers in the development of their individual voices
and in the practice of their craft. She is currently at work on
collections of poetry, short fiction and creative non-fiction,
and a novel.
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