Alison Taverna

Writer Alison Taverna earned her master’s degree in poetry and publishing from Chatham University, where her thesis, If We Keep These Bodies, won the Best Thesis in Poetry award. She currently serves as assistant editor at Autumn House Press and as the poetry instructor at Pittsburgh’s Creative and Performing Arts High School. Her first chapbook, What Hollywood Taught Me, won the 2015 Robin Becker Prize from Seven Kitchens Press. Tonight, she will be the featured writer at City of Asylum’s Free Association Reading, established to promote emerging Pittsburgh writers.