Our Teachers
The Muse's instructors are all working writers and published authors who have taught courses at colleges, universities, and other community organizations. Read our teachers’ biographies and see what classes they are currently teaching.
Alison Palmer
Alison Palmer is the author of the poetry collections, I Give You the Planets (Broadstone Books, forthcoming 2025), Bargaining with the Fall (Broadstone Books, 2023), The Offing (Broadstone Books, chapbook 2024), Everything Is Normal Here (Broadstone Books, chapbook 2022), and The Need for Hiding (Dancing Girl Press, chapbook 2018). Her work has appeared widely in journals such as FIELD, Crazyhorse, The Cincinnati Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Rogue Agent, The Los Angeles Review, River Styx, Cimarron, and Columbia Poetry Review. In 2022, Alison was the recipient of an Independent Artist Award grant from the Maryland State Arts Council. She currently navigates coastal Virginia, and you can find her on the web: www.alisonpalmer.org.