Alysia Nicole Harris

Alysia Nicole Harris received her MFA in poetry from NYU and is currently a PhD candidate in linguistics at Yale University. Pushcart nominee and winner of the 2014 & 2015 Stephen Dunn Poetry Prizes, her poetry has appeared in Indiana Review, Catch & Release, Solstice Literary Magazine and Vinyl Magazine. Alysia was the 2015 Duncanson Artist-in-Residence at the Taft Art Museum in Cincinnati and was recently selected for publication in Best New Poets 2015 by Tracy K. Smith. Her first chapbook How Much We Must Have Looked Like Stars to Stars won the 2015 New Women’s Voices Series Contest and is available from Finishing Line Press.