Because My Daughter Says, “It’s Mommy’s Job to Clean the Kitchen”

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