Allison Titus



Allison Titus is an American poet.

Life
Titus received a B.A. at the University of Mary Washington, an M.F.A. in fiction from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2003 and a second M.F.A. in poetry from Vermont College in 2005.

Titus is the author of the poetry collection Sum of Every Lost Ship (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2009) and the chapbook Instructions from the Narwhal (Bateau Press, 2006). Her chapbook was the winner of the Bateau Press BOOM Chapbook Prize. She is the recipient of the 2011 Literature Fellowship in Creative Writing from The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Titus’s poems and stories have appeared in Blackbird, Crazyhorse, Denver Quarterly, Ninth Letter, and Sycamore Review.

She currently lives in Richmond, Virginia with her husband, the poet Joshua Poteat.