Alison Granucci is a poet, writer, woodland gardener, naturalist, and photographer living in the Hudson Valley. The natural world is her base, where the act of noticing and deep listening intersects with creative and scientific inquiry. In 2005, she founded Blue Flower Arts, the first U.S. literary speaker’s agency to represent poets, and upon retiring in 2020 began, unexpectedly, to write her own poetry. Her work is published or forthcoming in EcoTheo Review, terrain.org, Great River Review, Crosswinds Poetry Journal, Subnivean Journal (Poetry Award finalist), The Dewdrop, and Little by Little, the Bird Builds Its Nest (Petit à petit, l'oiseau fait son nid), an anthology of bird poems by Paris Morning Publications. She has also published two essays on the topic of gun violence: “Straight to the Head” (Turning Wheel), and “Shot into Life” (ReVision), which received an Honorable Mention in The Best Spiritual Essays (1997).

In 2022, Alison was honored with the [HAVE TO FIND THE NAME!] award from The New York Poetry Society for her contributions to the world of poetry. She was a 2023 Artist-in-residence at Trail Wood, homestead of naturalist Edwin Way Teale, and a 2022 graduate of the Brooklyn Poets Mentorship Program. Alison currently serves a reader for The Rumpus, and is at work on a book length manuscript.