Allison Benis White’s poems have appeared in The Iowa Review, Ploughshares, and Pleiades, among other journals. Her honors include the Indiana Review Poetry Prize, the Bernice Slote Award from Prairie Schooner, and a Writers Exchange Award from Poets & Writers. Her manuscript, Self-Portrait with Crayon, won the 2008 Cleveland State University Poetry Center First Book Competition, and is forthcoming in early 2009.