In the Room When It Happens [2024 Loraine Williams Poetry Prize Featured Finalist]

Allison Adair is author of The Clearing (Milkweed, 2020), winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize. Her poems appear in Best American Poetry, The Threepenny Review, Kenyon Review, Gulf Coast, and ZYZZYVA and have received the Pushcart Prize, the Florida Review Editor’s Prize, and the Orlando Poetry Prize. Originally from central Pennsylvania, Adair teaches at Boston College.