Alison Luterman -- Aluterman1@aol.com

website:   www.alisonluterman.com          
blog:      www.seehowwealmostfly.blogspot.com

Alison Luterman’s first book of poetry, The Largest Possible Life, was selected by Bruce Weigl to be the winner of the Cleveland State University Poetry Prize and was published in 2001 by Cleveland State University Press. She has published poems in numerous magazines and anthologies, including The Sun, Poetry East, The Brooklyn Review, Pleiades, Oberon, Slipstream, Poetry 180, On Revenge and Forgiveness, and others.

One of her poems was on BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) for a few years during the 90’s; another poem is currently seen by commuters in Portland, Oregon. Her personal essays have appeared in The Sun, Radiance, Response, The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Boston Phoenix, and More Magazine.  

Her first play Saying Kaddish With My Sister, received a staged reading from A Traveling Jewish Theatre in San Francisco, and will be produced in January of 2008 by Jewish Ensemble Theatre of Michigan. The Mendana Dance Company produced and performed a collection of her poems in 2007, called See How We Almost Fly. Her play Oasis was produced by the Exit Theatre of San Francisco in 2007.

She has taught poetry to thousands of schoolchildren through her fifteen year association with California Poets in the Schools. She currently teaches Essay Writing and Poetry through The Writing Salon, and gives or has given creative writing workshops at Esalen Institute, Omega Institute, Santa Barbara Writer’s Conference, and Mendocino Coast Writer’s Conference. She performs improvisational spoken word with the Oakland-based performance troupe Wing It!



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