Allison Adair
Allison Adair grew up somewhere between the pastures and battlefields of rural Pennsylvania. Since leaving her home, she has lived in Providence, Dublin, Belfast, Boston, and Iowa City, where she is currently completing her final semester in the Writers' Workshop. She once used the pen of former Irish President Mary Robinson to practice writing the letter "q" in cursive. She finds this experience somehow notable. "Rush On" and "The Softest Gossip" were both written while Adair was studying in Iowa, during a blessed reunion with the poems of W.B. Yeats and Richard Hugo. The recipient of a Workshop Teaching-Writing Fellowship, Adair hopes to pursue writing both poetry and fiction when she returnes to boston next year.

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