Alison C. Rollins

Alison C. Rollins was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. She is the author of Black Bell (Copper Canyon Press, 2024) and Library of Small Catastrophes (Copper Canyon Press, 2019), a 2020 Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award nominee. In 2019, she was named a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow. Her work across genres has appeared in American Poetry Review, Black Warrior Review, Iowa Review, The New York Times Magazine, and elsewhere. A Cave Canem and Callaloo fellow, Rollins was a 2016 recipient of the Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship. In 2018, she was a recipient of the Rona Jaffe Writers' Award, and in 2020, the winner of a Pushcart Prize. Rollins is a Harvard Radcliffe Institute fellow.