Allison Benis White

Allison Benis White is the author of The Wendys (Four Way Books 2020), Please Bury Me in This, winner of the Rilke Prize, and Small Porcelain Head, selected by Claudia Rankine for the Levis Prize in Poetry. Her debut, Self-Portrait with Crayon, received the CSU Poetry Center First Book Prize. Her work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, New England Review, Pushcart Prize XLI: Best of the Small Presses, and elsewhere. She teaches at the University of California, Riverside.