Allison Titus is an

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. Titus is the author of the poetry collection ''Sum of Every Lost Ship'' (

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, 2009), the chapbook ''Instructions from the Narwhal'' (Bateau Press, 2006) and the novel ''The Arsonist's Song Has Nothing to Do with Fire'' (Etruscan Press 2014). Her chapbook was the winner of the Bateau Press BOOM Chapbook Prize. She is the recipient of the 2011 Literature Fellowship in Creative Writing from

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(NEA). Titus's poems and stories have appeared in '' Blackbird'', '' Crazyhorse'', ''

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Sycamore Review ''Sycamore Review'' is an American literary magazine based at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. Each year, it awards Wabash Prizes for fiction and poetry. Henry Hughes was its first editor-in-chief, from 1988 to 1991. See also *Li ...

''. Allison Titus received her B.A. at the

University of Mary Washington University of Mary Washington (UMW) is a public liberal arts university in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Established in 1908 as the State Normal and Industrial School for Women at Fredericksburg, the institution later became known as Fredericksbu ...

, an M.F.A in fiction from

Virginia Commonwealth University Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) is a Public university, public research university in Richmond, Virginia, United States. VCU was founded in 1838 as the medical department of Hampden–Sydney College, becoming the Medical College of Virgin ...

in 2003 and her M.F.A. in poetry from

Vermont College Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA) is a private graduate-level college affiliated with California Institute of the Arts. It offers Master's degrees in a low-residency format. Its faculty includes Pulitzer Prize finalists, National Book Award wi ...

in 2005. She currently lives in

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with her husband, the poet

Joshua Poteat Joshua Poteat is an American poet. Background Joshua Poteat got his Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of North Carolina Wilmington in 1993 and received his Master of Fine Arts in writing at Virginia Commonwealth University in May 1 ...

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