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Alison Swan
September 27, 2002
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Alison
Swan’s poems have appeared in many publications, including
The Bellingham Review, the Red Cedar Review, and the Detroit
MetroTimes. Her poem “Porch Swing,” published as
a limited edition hand-made book, is included in rare book
collections throughout the country, including the New York
Public Library, the University of Michigan, and Michigan State
University.
Her creative nonfiction, “Tracing the Winter
Dunes,” set
in the Lake Michigan sand dunes in deep winter, was included
in MSU Press’s 2000 anthology, Peninsula: Essays
and Memoirs from Michigan. The year before, a longer version
of that essay was a finalist for a Heekin Prize. Her soon-to-be
published Fresh Water: Women Writing on the Great Lakes is
an anthology of women’s creative nonfiction about the
Great Lakes.
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In
1984, Swan graduated from MSU with a B.A. in English Literature,
and in 1991, she
received her M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of
Michigan. She taught literature and writing at both the secondary
and higher levels for more than six years. Swan has also written
a book column for Ann Arbor’s Current magazine since 1996,
and her book reviews have appeared in Fourth Genre and the Paper.
From 1993 to 1997, she managed publicity and advertising at Shaman
Drum Bookshop in Ann Arbor.
Alison Swan is the Michigan Environmental Council Petosky
Prize Winner and cofounder of Concerned Citizens for Saugatuck
Dunes State Park. She is a former independent bookstore owner
in Saugatuck and currently lives in Chelsea, Michigan.
To view Special Collections' holdings of Alison Swan's work,
please click here.
To hear Swan read from her own work, please visit the Vincent
Voice Library, here.
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