Alison Pelegrin is the recipient of fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Louisiana Board of Regents, the Foundation for Louisiana, and the Academy of American Poets. Alison’s two most recent poetry collections are Our Lady of Bewilderment (2022) and Waterlines (2016), both with LSU Press. Her work has appeared in The Southern Review, The Missouri Review, and The Best American Poetry 2025. While serving as Louisiana Poet Laureate from 2023-2025, she founded the Lifelines Poetry Project, and her poetry outreach in prisons continues to this day. She is Writer-in-Residence at Southeastern Louisiana University.