Alisha Dietzman

Alisha Dietzman is the author of Sweet Movie (Beacon, 2023), selected by Victoria Chang for the 2022 National Poetry Series, and shortlisted for the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize in 2024. Her chapbook, Slow Motion Something For No Reason (Factory Hollow Press, 2022), was the editors’ choice selection for the Tomaž Šalamun Prize. She received her MFA in Poetry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and her PhD in Divinity from the University of St Andrews, where she wrote a thesis examining ethics in contemporary art, supported by a grant from the US-UK Fulbright Commission. Her creative and critical work has also received support from the Rebecca Swift Foundation, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, and the Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park. Her poetry has appeared in or will appear in Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, Chicago Review, The Iowa Review, and elsewhere. Raised between Columbia, South Carolina and Prague, Czech Republic, she now lives in Oregon.