Louisiana Poet Laureate Alison Pelegrin‘s most recent poetry collections are Our Lady of Bewilderment (2022), which went on to be awarded the Phillip H. McMath Award in Poetry, and Waterlines (2016), both with LSU Press, and, with the University of Akron Press, Hurricane Party (2011) and Big Muddy River of Stars (2007), which won the Akron Prize in Poetry. She is the recipient of fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Louisiana Division of the Arts, the Foundation for Louisiana, A Poet Laureate Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets, and the Louisiana Board of Regents. Pelegrin is Writer in Residence at Southeastern Louisiana University where she has taught for more than twenty years.
The New Orleans Poetry Festival is Alison’s enthusiastic community partner in this project, assisting with website, promotions, and logistics. NOPF will also host the launch event for the Lifelines Poetry Project at their 2025 Festival, April 11-12, 2025.